Lamentations 5:4-6

English Standard Version

⁴ We must pay for the water we drink;
    the wood we get must be bought.
^5 (A)Our pursuers are at our necks;
    we are weary; we are given no rest.
⁶ We have given the hand to ^(B)Egypt, and to ^(C)Assyria,
    to get bread enough.