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Lamentations 5:2-9 English Standard Version (ESV)

2. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our homes to foreigners.

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. Our pursuers are at our necks;we are weary; we are given no rest.

6. We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,to get bread enough.

7. Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

8. Slaves rule over us;there is none to deliver us from their hand.

9. We get our bread at the peril of our lives,because of the sword in the wilderness.

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