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We risk our life for food[a]
    because of the sword of the desert.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven
    because of the scorching famine.
11 They raped women in Zion,
    young women[b] in the cities of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:9 Literally “We take our food at our life”
  2. Lamentations 5:11 Or “virgins”