Lamentations 5:4-6

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⁴ We must pay for the water we drink;
    the wood we get must be bought.
^5 (A)Our pursuers are at our necks;^[a]
    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.