Lamentations 5:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸Slaves rule over us;
    there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
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.

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