Lamentations 5:3-5

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³We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.
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.

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Lamentations 5:5 Symmachus: Heb lacks With a yoke

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