We get our bread [a]at the (A)risk of our lives
[b]Because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin has become as (B)hot as an oven,
Because of [c]the burning heat of famine.
11 They ravished the (C)women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:9 Lit with our soul
  2. Lamentations 5:9 Or In the face of
  3. Lamentations 5:10 Or the ravages of hunger