3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5. Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.
6. We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8. Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9. We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.