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A Prayer for Mercy and Restoration
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
Prayer for Restoration
Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us;
Look, and behold our reproach!
Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us;
Look, and behold our reproach!
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
And our houses to foreigners.
And our houses to foreigners.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We have become orphans and waifs,
Our mothers are like widows.
Our mothers are like widows.
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
We pay for the water we drink,
And our wood comes at a price.
And our wood comes at a price.
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given our hand to the Egyptians
And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities.
But we bear their iniquities.
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.
There is none to deliver us from their hand.
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.
Because of the fever of famine.
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
They ravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.
The maidens in the cities of Judah.
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
Princes were hung up by their hands,
And elders were not respected.
And elders were not respected.
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
Young men ground at the millstones;
Boys staggered under loads of wood.
Boys staggered under loads of wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,
And the young men from their music.
And the young men from their music.
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart has ceased;
Our dance has turned into mourning.
Our dance has turned into mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Because of this our heart is faint;
Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Because of Mount Zion which is desolate,
With foxes walking about on it.
With foxes walking about on it.
Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
You, O Lord, remain forever;
Your throne from generation to generation.
Your throne from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
Why do You forget us forever,
And forsake us for so long a time?
And forsake us for so long a time?
Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.