Lamentations 5:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

⁹ We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

¹⁰ Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.