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Lamentations 5:8

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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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  1. Lamentations 5:6

    We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  2. Lamentations 5:7

    Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

  3. Lamentations 5:9

    We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

  4. Lamentations 5:10

    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.