Lamentations 5:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

¹⁰ Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

¹¹ They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.