Lamentations 5:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸Slaves rule over us,
and no one delivers us from their control.^[a]

⁹We risk our lives to obtain our food,
facing death^[b] in the desert.

¹⁰Our skin blisters^[c] as from an oven,
due to ravaging blasts of the famine.

Footnotes

Lamentations 5:8 Lit. hand
Lamentations 5:9 Lit. facing the sword
Lamentations 5:10 Lit. blackens

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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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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Klagesangene 5:8-10

Bibelen på hverdagsdansk

⁸Et slavefolk er blevet herrer over os,
    og der er ingen til at redde os.
⁹Vi må hente vores føde langvejsfra
    og risikere at blive overfaldet på vejen.
¹⁰Vores hud er blevet mørk af solen,
    og sulten brænder i os.

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