Lamentations 5:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
    because of the sword in the wilderness.
¹⁰Our skin is black as an oven
    from the scorching heat of famine.
¹¹Women are raped in Zion,
    virgins in the towns of Judah.

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