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Rh :That the adversary and the enemy would enter
 * Into the gates of Jerusalem.
 * It is because of the sins of her prophets,
 * And the iniquities of her priests,
 * That have shed the blood of the just
 * In the midst of her.
 * They wander as blind men in the streets,
 * They are polluted with blood,
 * So that men cannot
 * Touch their garments.
 * 'Depart ye! unclean!' men cried unto them,
 * 'Depart, depart, touch not';
 * Yea, they fled away and wandered;
 * Men said among the nations:
 * 'They shall no more sojourn here.'
 * The anger of the hath divided them;
 * He will no more regard them;
 * They respected not the persons of the priests,
 * They were not gracious unto the elders.


 * As for us, our eyes do yet fail
 * For our vain help;
 * In our watching we have watched
 * For a nation that could not save.
 * They hunt our steps,
 * That we cannot go in our broad places;
 * Our end is near, our days are fulfilled;
 * For our end is come.
 * Our pursuers were swifter
 * Than the eagles of the heaven;
 * They chased us upon the mountains,
 * They lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
 * The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the ,
 * Was taken in their pits;
 * Of whom we said: 'Under his shadow
 * We shall live among the nations.'
 * Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
 * That dwellest in the land of Uz:
 * The cup shall pass over unto thee also;
 * Thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
 * The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion,
 * He will no more carry thee away into captivity;
 * He will punish thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom,
 * He will uncover thy sins.


 * Remember, O, what is come upon us;
 * Behold, and see our reproach.
 * Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,
 * Our houses unto aliens.
 * We are become orphans and fatherless,
 * Our mothers are as widows.
 * We have drunk our water for money:
 * Our wood cometh to us for price.
 * To our very necks we are pursued;
 * We labour, and have no rest.
 * We have given the hand to Egypt,
 * And to Assyria, to have bread enough.
 * Our fathers have sinned, and are not;
 * And we have borne their iniquities.
 * Servants rule over us;
 * There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
 * We get our bread with the peril of our lives
 * Because of the sword of the wilderness.
 * Our skin is hot like an oven