25:005:007 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
25:005:008 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
25:005:009 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
25:005:010 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
25:005:011 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
25:005:012 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
25:005:013 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
25:005:014 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
25:005:015 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
25:005:016 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
25:005:017 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
25:005:018 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
25:005:019 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
25:005:020 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
25:005:021 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
25:005:022 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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