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Because of the burning heat of famine.

¹¹They have ravished the women in Zion,

The maidens in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand;

The faces of elders are not honoured.

¹³The young men have borne the mill,

And the children have stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the

The young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased;

Our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head;

Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

 

¹⁷For this our heart is faint,

For these things our eyes are dim;

¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,

The foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹Thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever,

Thy throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever,

And forsake us so long time?

²¹Turn Thou us unto Thee, Lord, and we shall be turned;

Renew our days as of old.

²²Thou canst not have utterly rejected us,

And be exceeding wroth against us!

Turn Thou us unto Thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned;
Renew our days as of old.

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