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Lamentations 5:5
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Lamentations 5:5
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With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
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We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
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We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
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With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
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We have made a pact with Egypt and Assyria, to get enough bread.
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Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.
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[a].
Symmachus: Heb lacks [With a yoke]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.