A Prayer for Restoration 1 ULT Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us; look and see our reproach. BSB BSB: Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 ULT Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. BSB BSB: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 ULT We have become orphans, and there is no father; our mothers{ are} like widows. BSB BSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 ULT Our water we drink for silver; our wood comes at a price. BSB BSB: We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 ULT We are pursued on our necks; we are weary, and rest is not given to us. BSB BSB: We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 ULT We have given a hand to Egypt,{ to} Assyria, to be satisfied{ with} bread. BSB BSB: We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 ULT Our fathers sinned; they are no more, and we, we bear their iniquities. BSB BSB: Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 ULT Servants rule over us; there is no one tearing{ us} away from their hand. BSB BSB: Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 ULT At our lives we bring in our bread, from the face 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 ULT Our skin grows hot like an oven, from the face of the burning heat of famine. BSB BSB: Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 ULT They violate women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. BSB BSB: Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 ULT Princes are hung by their hands; the faces of elders are not honored. BSB BSB: Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 ULT Young men carry a grinding stone, and boys stumble under wood. BSB BSB: Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 ULT Elders have ceased from the gate, young men from their music. BSB BSB: The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 ULT The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing has turned to mourning. BSB BSB: Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 ULT The crown of our head has fallen. Woe now to us, for we have sinned! BSB BSB: The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 ULT On account of this, our heart has become sick; on account of these things, our eyes have grown dim. BSB BSB: Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18 ULT On account of Mount Zion, which is desolate, foxes walk on it. BSB BSB: because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19 ULT You, Yahweh, sit forever; your throne{ is} to generation and generation. BSB BSB: You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 ULT Why do you forget us forever,{ why} do you forsake us for the length of days? BSB BSB: Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21 ULT Return us to yourself, Yahweh, and let us return; 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 ULT For have you rejecting, rejected us? Have you been angry against us beyond measure? BSB BSB: unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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