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Prayer for Restoration
Chapter 5
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LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!
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Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
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We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.
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We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.
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Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.
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We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.
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Our ancestors sinned, but they have died-- and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!
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Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.
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We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.
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The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.
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Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.
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Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.
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Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
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The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.
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Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.
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Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.
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For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.
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But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.
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Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long?
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Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!
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Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still?