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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 5, Verse 2

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1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
American Standard Version
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
New English Translation
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
World English Bible
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
6
We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8
Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
9
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.