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Lamentations 5:5-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.

6. We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.

7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.

8. Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

9. We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.

10. Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

11. They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.

12. The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

13. They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.

14. The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.

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