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10 The adversary seized in his hands
    everything she valued.
She watched the nations[a]
    enter her sanctuary;
those you forbade to enter
    your place of meeting.

11 All her people groaned
    as they searched for food.
They traded their valuables in order to eat,
    to keep themselves alive.[b]
Look, Lord, and see
    how I have become dishonored.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:10 Or watched foreigners
  2. Lamentations 1:11 Lit. to eat to refresh the soul