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Lamentations 5:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Lamentations 5:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 Our ancestors sinned; they are no more,
and we bear their iniquities.(A)
8 Slaves rule over us;
there is no one to deliver us from their hand.(B)
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
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