Lamentations 5:4-6

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⁴We must pay for the water we drink,
    the wood we get must be bought.
⁵With a yoke^[a] on our necks we are hard driven;
    we are weary, we are given no rest.
⁶We have given the hand to Egypt,
    and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

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Lamentations 5:5 Symmachus: Heb lacks with a yoke

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