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| 5:1 |
 emember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch. |
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| 5:2 |
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants. |
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| 5:3 |
We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes. |
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| 5:4 |
We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs. |
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| 5:5 |
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest. |
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| 5:6 |
We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
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| 5:7 |
Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities. |
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| 5:8 |
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand. |
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| 5:9 |
We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse. |
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| 5:10 |
Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine. |
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| 5:11 |
They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah. |
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| 5:12 |
Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured. |
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| 5:13 |
They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood. |
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| 5:14 |
The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke. |
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| 5:15 |
The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning. |
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| 5:16 |
The crowne is fallen from our head: Woe vnto vs, that wee haue sinned. |
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| 5:17 |
For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dimme. |
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| 5:18 |
Because of the mountaine of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walke vpon it. |
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| 5:19 |
Thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne from generation to generation. |
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| 5:20 |
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time? |
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| 5:21 |
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our dayes as of old. |
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| 5:22 |
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art very wroth against vs. |
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