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We risk our lives to obtain our food,
    facing death[a] in the desert.

10 Our skin blisters[b] as from an oven,
    due to ravaging blasts of the famine.

11 They have raped women in Zion,
    young women[c] in the towns of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:9 Lit. facing the sword
  2. Lamentations 5:10 Lit. blackens
  3. Lamentations 5:11 Lit. the virgins