Lamentations 5:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our homes to aliens.
³We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.
⁴We must pay for the water we drink;
    the wood we get must be bought.

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