Lamentations 5:9

“We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.”

About Lamentations

Poetic mourning over Jerusalem's destruction.

Old Testament • Book #25

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; we have borne their iniquities.

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

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