The Congregation at Duke University Chapel

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¹ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us;
behold, and see our reproach.

² Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,
our houses unto aliens.

³ We are become orphans and fatherless,
our mothers are as widows.

⁴ We have drunk our water for money;
our wood cometh to us for price.

⁵ To our very necks we are pursued;
we labour, and have no rest.

⁶ We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,
to have bread enough;

⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and are not;
and we have borne their iniquities.

⁸ Servants rule over us;
there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

⁹ We get our bread with the peril of our lives
because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰ Our skin is hot like an oven
because of the burning heat of famine.

¹¹ They have ravished the women in Zion,
the maidens in the cities of Judah.

¹² Princes are hanged up by their hand;
the faces of elders are not honoured.

¹³ The young men have borne the mill,
and the children have stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate,
the young men from their music.

¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased;
our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head;
woe unto us! for we have sinned.

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint,
for these things our eyes are dim;

¹⁸ For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
the foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever,
Thy throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰ Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever,
and forsake us so long time?

²¹ Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;
renew our days as of old.

²² Thou canst not have utterly rejected us,
and be exceeding wroth against us!

from The Jewish Publication Society (1917 edition) of The Holy Scriptures (Old Testament)

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