Lamentations 5:4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks under persecution: we labour, have no rest.
6 We have given the hand the Egyptians, the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.