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Lamentations 5:3-13

3 we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

3 We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.

4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us on our neck:

4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.

5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

5 Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.

6 Egypt gave the hand , Assur to their own satisfaction.

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

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

7 Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom out of their hand.

8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.

9 We shall bring in our bread with our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.

12 Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

13 The chosen men lifted up weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

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