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