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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 violated 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

We get our bread at the risk of our lives
    because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
    feverish from hunger.(A)
11 Women have been violated(B) in Zion,
    and virgins in the towns of Judah.

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