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too spicy not to bring over...
>Lamentations 5:5
>Remember, Lord, what has happened to us;
> look, and see our disgrace.
>2
>Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
> our homes to foreigners.
>3
>We have become fatherless,
> our mothers are widows.
>4
>We must buy the water we drink;
> our wood can be had only at a price.
>5
>Those who pursue us are at our heels;
> we are weary and find no rest.
>6
>We submitted to Egypt and Assyria
> to get enough bread.
>7
>Our ancestors sinned and are no more,
> and we bear their punishment.
>8
>Slaves rule over us,
> and there is no one to free us from their hands.
>9
>We get our bread at the risk of our lives
> because of the sword in the desert.
>10
>Our skin is hot as an oven,
> feverish from hunger.
>11
>Women have been violated in Zion,
> and virgins in the towns of Judah.
>12
>Princes have been hung up by their hands;
> elders are shown no respect.
>13
>Young men toil at the millstones;
> boys stagger under loads of wood.
>14
>The elders are gone from the city gate;
> the young men have stopped their music.
>15
>Joy is gone from our hearts;
> our dancing has turned to mourning.
>16
>The crown has fallen from our head.
> Woe to us, for we have sinned!
>17
>Because of this our hearts are faint,
> because of these things our eyes grow dim
>18
>for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,
> with jackals prowling over it.
>19
>You, Lord, reign forever;
> your throne endures from generation to generation.
>20
>Why do you always forget us?
> Why do you forsake us so long?
>21
>Restore us to yourself, Lord, that we may return;
> renew our days as of old
>22
>unless you have utterly rejected us
> and are angry with us beyond measure.