Lamentations 5:5

5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.

Lamentations 5:5 In-Context

3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4 We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
6 We have made a pact with Egypt and Assyria, to get enough bread.
7 Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Symmachus: Heb lacks [With a yoke]
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