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Lamentations 5:3-5
Revised Standard Version
Lamentations 5:3-5
Revised Standard Version
3 We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
4 We must pay for the water we drink,
the wood we get must be bought.
5 With a yoke[a] on our necks we are hard driven;
we are weary, we are given no rest.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 5:5 Symmachus: Heb lacks with a yoke
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
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