3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. 4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. 5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest. 6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. 7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. 8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands. 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. 10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. 11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect. 13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:3–13
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