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Lamentations 4:8-9

Lamentations 4:8-9 TPT

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Now their faces are emaciated; they are not even recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones, as dry as a stick. Better are those killed by the sword than those killed by famine. They slowly starve to death for lack of food.

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