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Lamentations 5:1

The Passion Translation

Yahweh, remember all that we’ve endured; look and see our disgrace.

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You have heard their mockery, Yahweh, all their horrible schemes against me.

I remember wandering around in misery, drinking the poison of bitterness.

All who pass your way applaud in mockery. They wag their heads with contempt, saying over beloved Jerusalem, “Is this really the city called The Perfection of Beauty, The Joy of All the Earth?”

Then I said, “Yahweh, you understand everything perfectly. Remember me and act on my behalf. Pay back all those who persecute me. Do not be so patient with my enemies; take revenge on them before they kill me. It is for your sake that I suffer insult after insult.

Lord God, take what these mocking masses have done to us and pay it all back to them seven times over.

Now the nearby nations heap their scorn upon us, scoffing, mocking us incessantly.

Then he said, “I beg of you, Jesus, show me grace and take me with you into your everlasting kingdom!”

“Look, Yahweh, and please consider. Whom have you ever treated this way? Should women eat their offspring, the little ones they have nursed? Should priests and prophets be slaughtered in the Lord’s sanctuary?

“Yahweh, can’t you see I’m in deep trouble? My gut is churning and my heart is burning— how rebellious I have been! The sword rules on the street; plague rules within the houses.

Look upon all my misery and come be my hero to rescue me, for I will never forget what you’ve revealed to me.

Jerusalem, I have stationed intercessors on your walls who will never be silent, day or night. You “reminders” of Yahweh, take no rest,

until Yahweh looks down from heaven and sees how much we suffer.

O  Yahweh, don’t ever forget how these arrogant enemies, like fools, have mocked your name.

“We were mocked and ashamed; we were covered with disgrace because foreigners had entered the temple of Yahweh’s holy places.”

Her filth stains her skirts— she never pictured this outcome. Therefore, her fall is terrible with no one to comfort her. Jerusalem groans, “Yahweh, look how miserable I am; all the while my enemy gloats!”

Everyone is groaning, longing for anything to eat; they have traded their treasures for food in order to keep themselves alive. “Look, Yahweh, and consider how pathetic I have become!




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