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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 5, Verse 4

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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
American Standard Version
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
New English Translation
We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
World English Bible
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
6
We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8
Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
9
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.