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 made a pact with^[b] Egypt and Assyria,
    to get enough bread.

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

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