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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

10 The enemy has stretched out his hand
    over all her treasures;
for she has seen the nations,
    they entered her sanctuary,
those whom you commanded not to enter
    in your assembly.
11 All her people groan,
    they are searching for bread.
They give their treasures for food,
    to bring back life.
See, O Yahweh, and look,
    how I am despised.

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