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11 All her people are sighing as they search for bread.
    They traded their precious things for food in order to stay alive.
    Look, Lord, and see that I have become despised.
12 But nothing like this is happening to you, all you who pass me by.[a]
    Look and see if there is any pain like my pain, which was dealt out to me,
    which the Lord caused me to suffer on the day of his burning anger.
13 From on high he sent fire into my bones and overpowered[b] me.
    He spread a net for my feet. He turned me back.
    He made me desolate. I was sick all day long.

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  1. Lamentations 1:12 Or is all this nothing to you, all you who pass me by?
  2. Lamentations 1:13 Or it came down on

11 All her people groan(A)
    as they search for bread;(B)
they barter their treasures for food
    to keep themselves alive.
“Look, Lord, and consider,
    for I am despised.”

12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?(C)
    Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering(D)
    that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
    in the day of his fierce anger?(E)

13 “From on high he sent fire,
    sent it down into my bones.(F)
He spread a net(G) for my feet
    and turned me back.
He made me desolate,(H)
    faint(I) all the day long.

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