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Lamentations 5:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Lamentations 5:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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[a] on our necks we are hard driven;
we are weary; we are given no rest.(A)
Footnotes
- 5.5 Symmachus: Heb lacks With a yoke
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