The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
A Prayer for Mercy |
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us:
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consider, and behold our reproach. |
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers,
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We are orphans and fatherless,
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our mothers are as widows. |
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We have drunken our water for money;
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our wood is sold unto us. |
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Our necks are under persecution:
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we labor, and have no rest. |
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians,
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to be satisfied with bread. |
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not;
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and we have borne their iniquities. |
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Servants have ruled over us:
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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,
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because of the sword of the wilderness. |
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Our skin was black like an oven,
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because of the terrible famine. |
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They ravished the women in Zion,
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and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
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Princes are hanged up by their hand:
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the faces of elders were not honored. |
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They took the young men to grind,
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and the children fell under the wood. |
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The elders have ceased from the gate,
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the young men from their music. |
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The joy of our heart is ceased;
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our dance is turned into mourning. |
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The crown is fallen from our head:
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woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
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For this our heart is faint;
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for these things our eyes are dim. |
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever;
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thy throne from generation to generation. |
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
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and forsake us so long time? |
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Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;
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renew our days as of old. |
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But thou hast utterly rejected us;
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thou art very wroth against us. |
Published by The American Bible Society
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