We have drunk our [a]water for money, and our wood is sold unto us.

Our necks are under persecution: we are weary, and have no rest.

We have given our [b]hands to the Egyptians, and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:4 Meaning, their extreme servitude and bondage.
  2. Lamentations 5:6 We are joined in league and amity with them, or have submitted ourselves unto them.

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