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Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.(A)

We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].
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Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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