A Prayer for Restoration 1 AKJV Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach. BSB BSB: Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 AKJV Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. BSB BSB: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 AKJV We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. BSB BSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 AKJV We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us. BSB BSB: We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 AKJV Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. BSB BSB: We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 AKJV We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. BSB BSB: We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 AKJV Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. BSB BSB: Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 AKJV Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand. BSB BSB: Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 AKJV We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. BSB BSB: We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 AKJV Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. BSB BSB: Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 AKJV They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. BSB BSB: Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 AKJV Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored. BSB BSB: Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 AKJV They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. BSB BSB: Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 AKJV The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. BSB BSB: The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 AKJV The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. BSB BSB: Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 AKJV The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned! BSB BSB: The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 AKJV For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. BSB BSB: Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18 AKJV Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it. BSB BSB: because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19 AKJV You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation. BSB BSB: You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 AKJV Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? BSB BSB: Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21 AKJV Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. BSB BSB: Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22 AKJV But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us. BSB BSB: unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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