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Lamentations 5:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Lamentations 5:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Servants[a] rule over us,
with no one to tear us from their hands.
9 We risk our lives just to get bread,
exposed to the desert heat;(A)
10 Our skin heats up like an oven,
from the searing blasts of famine.(B)
Footnotes
- 5:8 Servants: the Hebrew word for “servant” is also the word used for an official of relatively high status (servant of the ruler; cf. 2 Kgs 25:24, where the term is used to refer to Babylonian rulers over occupied Jerusalem); the author doubtless intends the double meaning here.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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