We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword [a]of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like as an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They defiled the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:9 Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness, and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food.

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