Lamentations 5:4-10

Social and Physical Ruin

Lamentations 5:4-10
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We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
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We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
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We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
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Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
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We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
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Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
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