8. Slaves rule over us;there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
9. We get our bread at the peril of our lives,because of the sword in the wilderness.
10. Our skin is hot as an oven,because of the terrible famine.
11. They ravished the women in Zion,the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12. Princes were hung up by their hands,the faces of elders were not honored.
13. Young men ground at the millstones;boys staggered under loads of wood.
14. The elders have left the city gate,the young men stopped their music.
15. The joy of our hearts has ceased;our dancing has turned into mourning.
16. The crown has fallen from our head;woe to us, for we have sinned!
17. For this our heart is faint;for these things our eyes grow dim;
18. because of Mount Zion, which is desolate,with foxes walking upon it.
19. You, O Lord, remain forever;Your throne endures from generation to generation.