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Lamentations 5:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Lamentations 5:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 We must purchase the water we drink;
we must pay for our own wood.
5 On our necks is the yoke of those who persecute us;
although we are exhausted, we are afforded no rest.
6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria
to get enough bread to sustain us.