Lamentations 5:4-10

Social and Physical Ruin

Lamentations 5:4-10
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We have to pay to drink our own water; we have to buy our own wood.
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The yoke is on our necks; we are persecuted; we toil to exhaustion but are given no rest.
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We made pacts with Egypt and Ashur to get enough food.
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Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist; we bear the weight of their guilt.
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We are ruled by slaves, and there is no one to save us from their power.
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We get our food at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
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Our skins are as black as a furnace because of the searing blasts of famine.
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