Slaves rule over us;(A)
no one rescues us from their hands.
We secure our food at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot[a] as an oven(B)
from the ravages of hunger.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:10 Or black; Hb obscure

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