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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 5, Verse 9

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Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
King James Version
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
American Standard Version
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
New English Translation
At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
World English Bible
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.