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We must pay for the water we drink;
    the wood we get must be bought.
With a yoke[a] on our necks we are hard driven;
    we are weary, we are given no rest.
We have made a pact with[b] Egypt and Assyria,
    to get enough bread.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:5 Symmachus: Heb lacks With a yoke
  2. Lamentations 5:6 Heb have given the hand to

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