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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.",
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.",
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.",
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.",
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.",
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.",
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.",
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.",
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.",
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.",
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?",
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.",
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.",
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