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Lamentations 5:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Remember, Lord, what has happened to us, pay attention, and see our disgrace:

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They answered me: “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and under reproach. The wall of Jerusalem has been breached, its gates gutted by fire.”

But remember the admonition which you addressed to Moses, your servant, when you said: If you prove faithless, I will scatter you among the peoples;

Meanwhile the Judahites were saying: “Slackened is the bearers’ strength, there is no end to the rubbish; Never will we be able to rebuild the wall.”

Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! Will you then bring me down to dust again?

Remember that my life is like the wind; my eye will not see happiness again.

Look at my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law.

Remember how the enemy has jeered, Lord, how a foolish people has reviled your name.

Turn back sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the insult with which they insulted you, Lord.

We have become the reproach of our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.

Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I have stationed sentinels; By day and by night, they shall never be silent. You who are to remind the Lord, take no rest,

You know, Lord: Remember me and take care of me, avenge me on my persecutors. Because you are slow to anger, do not banish me; know that for you I have borne insult.

We are ashamed because we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces; strangers have entered sanctuaries in the Lord’s house.

All her people groan, searching for bread; They give their precious things for food, to retain the breath of life. “Look, O Lord, and pay attention to how I have been demeaned!

Look, O Lord, at the anguish I suffer! My stomach churns, And my heart recoils within me: How bitter I am! Outside the sword bereaves— indoors, there is death.

Her uncleanness is on her skirt; she has no thought of her future. Her downfall is astonishing, with no one to comfort her. “Look, O Lord, at my misery; how the enemy triumphs!”

All who pass by on the road, clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their heads over daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city they used to call perfect in beauty and joy of all the earth?”

“Look, O Lord, and pay attention: to whom have you been so ruthless? Must women eat their own offspring, the very children they have borne? Are priest and prophet to be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

The thought of my wretched homelessness is wormwood and poison;

Until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees.

You hear their reproach, Lord, all their plots against me,

O Lord, I have heard your renown, and am in awe, O Lord, of your work. In the course of years revive it, in the course of years make yourself known; in your wrath remember compassion!

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”




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