Lamentations 5:9
King James Version
Translation: KJV
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7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.Select Lamentations 5:7
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.Select Lamentations 5:9
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.Select Lamentations 5:10
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.Select Lamentations 5:11
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WEB
5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
ASV
5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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