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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 5, Verse 1

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The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
American Standard Version
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
New English Translation
The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
World English Bible
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
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We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
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We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.