“We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.”
Lamentations 5:4 (KJV) |
Lamentations 5:4
From Lamentations 5, in the Book of Lamentations (Old Testament).
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.