Add parallel Print Page Options

(A)Slaves rule over us;
There is (B)no one to tear us away from their hand.
We get our bread [a]at the (C)risk of our lives
[b]Because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin has become as (D)hot as an oven
Because of [c]the burning heat of famine.

Read full chapter

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