3. We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4. We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5. We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6. We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
8. Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9. We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10. Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11. They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12. The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
13. They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14. The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.