A Prayer for Restoration 1 CPDV Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace. BSB BSB: Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 CPDV Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders. BSB BSB: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 CPDV We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows. BSB BSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 CPDV We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price. BSB BSB: We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 CPDV We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us. BSB BSB: We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 CPDV We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread. BSB BSB: We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 CPDV Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities. BSB BSB: Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 CPDV Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand. BSB BSB: Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 CPDV We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness. BSB BSB: We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 CPDV Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine. BSB BSB: Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 CPDV They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah. BSB BSB: Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 CPDV The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders. BSB BSB: Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 CPDV They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood. BSB BSB: Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 CPDV The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms. BSB BSB: The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 CPDV The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning. BSB BSB: Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 CPDV The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned. BSB BSB: The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 CPDV Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened: BSB BSB: Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18 CPDV because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it. BSB BSB: because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19 CPDV But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation. BSB BSB: You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 CPDV Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time? BSB BSB: Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21 CPDV Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning. BSB BSB: Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22 CPDV But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us. BSB BSB: unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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