Berean Standard Bible

Lamentations 5:4

“We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.”

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

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

⁴We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

⁵We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

⁶We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

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