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Lamentations 5:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Lamentations 5:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black as an oven
from the scorching heat of famine.(A)
11 Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.(B)
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
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