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Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest.

We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians [merely] to get food to satisfy [our hunger].

Our fathers sinned and are no more, and [a]we have borne their iniquities.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:7 Fathers and sons alike are responsible for the calamity that has befallen Jerusalem. The truth of the matter is: this generation too deserved their punishment. “Woe to us, for we have sinned! Because of this our hearts are faint and sick; because of these things our eyes are dim and see darkly” (Lam. 5:16, 17).

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