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A Prayer for Mercy | ||||
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| 1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach! | 1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. | 1 "Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Take a look at our disgrace! | 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach. | 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach. | 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens. | 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. | 2 "The land we inherited has been turned over to strangers. Our homes have been turned over to foreigners. | 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. | 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. | 3 We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows. | 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. | 3 We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows. | 3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. | 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. | 4 We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price. | 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. | 4 We have to pay to drink our own water. We have to pay to chop our own wood. | 4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. | 4 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price. | 5 Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us. | 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. | 5 [Our enemies] are breathing down our necks. We are worn out [and] not permitted to rest. | 5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. | 5 Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. | 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. | 6 We had to beg Egypt and Assyria for food. | 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. | 6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. | 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities. | 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. | 7 Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, [but] we have to take the punishment for their wickedness. | 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. | 7 Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities. | 8 Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand. | 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. | 8 Slaves rule us. There is no one to rescue us from them. | 8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. | 8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. | 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness. | 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. | 9 To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert. | 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. | 9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. | 10 Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. | 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. | 10 Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation. | 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. | 10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. | 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. | 11 Women in Zion are raped, so are the girls in the cities of Judah. | 11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. | 11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah. | 12 Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected. | 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. | 12 [Our] leaders are hung by their hands. [Our] older leaders are shown no respect. | 12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. | 12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured. | 13 Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood. | 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. | 13 [Our] young men work at the mill, and [our] boys stagger under loads of wood. | 13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. | 13 The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood. | 14 Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music. | 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. | 14 [Our] older leaders have stopped meeting at the city gate, and [our] young men no longer play their music. | 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. | 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. | 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning. | 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. | 15 There is no joy left in our hearts. Our dancing has turned into mourning. | 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. | 15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 16 The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned! | 16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! | 16 The crown has fallen from our head. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us. | 16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned. | 16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned! | 17 Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim; | 17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. | 17 This is why we feel sick. This is why our eyes see less and less. | 17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; | 17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, | 18 Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Foxes prowl in it. | 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. | 18 Foxes roam around on Mount Zion, which lies in ruins. | 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it. | 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it. | 19 You, O LORD, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. | 19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. | 19 "But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever, and your reign continues throughout every generation. | 19 You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. | 19 Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation. | 20 Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long? | 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? | 20 Why have you completely forgotten us? Why have you abandoned us for such a long time? | 20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time? | 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time? | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 21 Restore us to You, O LORD, that we may be restored; Renew our days as of old, | 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. | 21 O LORD, bring us back to you, and we'll come back. Give us back the life we had long ago, | 21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old. | 21 Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. | 22 Unless You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us. | 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. | 22 unless you have completely rejected us [and] are very angry with us." | 22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us. | 22 Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us? |
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