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Lamentations 5:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Lamentations 5:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 Slaves rule over us;
there is no one to deliver us from their hand.(A)
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.(B)
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