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\c 5
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\p
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\q1
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\v 1 Yahweh, think about what has happened to us.
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\q2 See how no one respects us any longer.
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\q1
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\v 2 Foreigners have seized our property,
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\q2 and now they live in our homes.
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\q1
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\v 3 Our enemies have killed our fathers,
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\q2 and caused our mothers to become widows.
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\q1
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\v 4 Now they make us pay for water to drink,
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\q2 and pay for firewood.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 The enemy runs after us and is very close to us;
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\q2 we are exhausted, but they do not allow us to rest.
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\q1
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\v 6 In order to get enough food to remain alive,
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\q2 we begged Egypt and Assyria to help us.
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\q1
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\v 7 Our ancestors sinned, and now they are dead,
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\q2 but we are suffering for the sins that they committed.
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\b
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 Now the people who rule over us are themselves slaves to their own masters in Babylon.
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\q2 There is no one who can rescue us from their power.
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\q1
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\v 9 We go far to look for food, but we are in danger of dying when we do so,
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\q2 because of the robbers who live in the wilderness.
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\q1
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\v 10 Our skin has become hot like an oven,
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\q2 and we have a very high fever because we are extremely hungry.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 11 Our enemies have raped the women in Jerusalem,
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\q2 and they have done that to the young women in all the towns of Judea.
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\q1
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\v 12 Our enemies have hanged our leaders,
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\q2 and they have not respected our elders.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 13 They force our young men to grind flour with millstones,
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\q2 and young boys stagger while they are forced to carry heavy loads of firewood.
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\q1
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\v 14 Our elders no longer sit at the city gates to make important decisions;
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\q2 the young men no longer play their musical instruments.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 15 We are no longer joyful;
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\q2 instead of dancing joyfully, we now mourn.
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\q1
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\v 16 The wreaths of flowers have fallen off our heads.
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\q2 Terrible things have happened to us because of the sins that we committed.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 17 We are tired and discouraged,
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\q2 and we cannot see well because our eyes are full of tears.
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\q1
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\v 18 Jerusalem has no one living any more in it,
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\q2 and jackals prowl around in it.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 19 But Yahweh, you rule forever!
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\q2 You continue to rule from one generation to the next generation.
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\q1
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\v 20 So why have you forgotten us?
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\q2 Will you abandon us for a very long time?
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\q1
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\v 21 Please enable us to return to you,
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\q2 and enable us to prosper as we did previously.
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\q1
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\v 22 Please do that, or is it really true that you have rejected us forever?
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\q2 Is it really true that you will never stop being extremely angry with us?
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