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A Prayer for Mercy and Restoration
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
our homes to foreigners.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
our mothers are like widows.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.
the wood we get must be bought.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Our pursuers are at our necks;
we are weary; we are given no rest.
we are weary; we are given no rest.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,
to get bread enough.
to get bread enough.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
and we bear their iniquities.
and we bear their iniquities.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Slaves rule over us;
there is none to deliver us from their hand.
there is none to deliver us from their hand.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
because of the sword in the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our skin is hot as an oven
with the burning heat of famine.
with the burning heat of famine.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.
young women in the towns of Judah.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Princes are hung up by their hands;
no respect is shown to the elders.
no respect is shown to the elders.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,
and boys stagger under loads of wood.
and boys stagger under loads of wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
The old men have left the city gate,
the young men their music.
the young men their music.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.
our dancing has been turned to mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that 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 are dim.
For this our heart has become sick,
for these things our eyes have grown dim,
for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.
jackals prowl over it.
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
But you, O Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures to all generations.
your throne endures to all generations.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Why do you forget us forever,
why do you forsake us for so many days?
why do you forsake us for so many days?
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!
Renew our days as of old —
Renew our days as of old —