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Lamentations 5:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. "
Lamentations 5:5
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Lamentations 5:1
"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 5:2
"Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 5:3
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 5:4
"We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold"
Lamentations 5:6
"We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
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