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Lamentations 5:9-11
Contemporary English Version
Lamentations 5:9-11
Contemporary English Version
9 We are in danger
from brutal desert tribes;
we must risk our lives
just to bring in our crops.[a]
10 Our skin is scorched
from fever and hunger.
11 On Zion and everywhere in Judah
our wives and daughters
are being raped.
Footnotes
- 5.9 crops: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 9.
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