Lamentations 5:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

⁹We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

¹⁰Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Lamentations 5:8-10

New International Version

⁸Slaves^(A) rule over us,
    and there is no one to free us from their hands.^(B)
⁹We get our bread at the risk of our lives
    because of the sword in the desert.
¹⁰Our skin is hot as an oven,
    feverish from hunger.^(C)

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Lamentations 5:8-10

New King James Version

⁸Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.
⁹We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.

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