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Lamentations 5:1

Contemporary English Version 1995

Our Lord, don't forget how we have suffered and been disgraced.

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I know your reputation, Lord, and I am amazed at what you have done. Please turn from your anger and be merciful; do for us what you did for our ancestors.

Yes, you know their insults and their evil plans.

Just thinking of my troubles and my lonely wandering makes me miserable.

Those who pass by shake their heads and sneer as they make fun and shout, “What a lovely city you were, the happiest on earth, but look at you now!”

You can see how I suffer insult after insult, all because of you, Lord. Don't be so patient with my enemies; take revenge on them before they kill me.

Each of those nations sneered at you, our Lord. Now let others sneer at them, seven times as much.

Every nation around us sneers and makes fun.

But I prayed, “Our God, these people hate us and have wished horrible things for us. Please answer our prayers and make their insults fall on them! Let them be the ones to be dragged away as prisoners of war.

Then he said to Jesus, “Remember me when you come into power!”

Think about it, Lord! Have you ever been this cruel to anyone before? Is it right for mothers to eat their children, or for priests and prophets to be killed in your temple?

Won't you look and see how upset I am, our Lord? My stomach is in knots, and my heart is broken because I betrayed you. In the streets and at home, my people are slaughtered.

Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. So don't turn me back into dust once again.

I beg you, God, don't forget! My life is just a breath, and trouble lies ahead.

Please remember the promise you made to Moses. You told him that if we were unfaithful, you would scatter us among foreign nations.

They told me, “Those captives who have come back are having all kinds of troubles. They are terribly disgraced, Jerusalem's walls are broken down, and its gates have been burned.”

I have not forgotten your Law! Look at the trouble I am in, and rescue me.

Jerusalem, on your walls I have stationed guards, whose duty it is to speak out day and night, without resting. They must remind the Lord

until the Lord looks down from heaven and helps.

Remember your enemies, Lord! They foolishly sneer and won't respect you.

You feel ashamed and disgraced, because foreigners have entered my sacred temple.

Her sins had made her filthy, but she wasn't worried about what could happen. And when Jerusalem fell, it was so tragic. No one gave her comfort when she cried out, “Help! I'm in trouble, Lord! The enemy has won.”

Everyone in the city groans while searching for food; they trade their valuables for barely enough scraps to stay alive. Jerusalem shouts to the Lord, “Please look and see how miserable I am!”




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