Our fathers have sinned, and are not, and we have borne [a]their iniquities.

Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands.

We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword [b]of the wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:7 As our fathers have been punished for their sins: so we that are culpable of the same sins, are punished.
  2. Lamentations 5:9 Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness, and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food.

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