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.
10. Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
11. They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
12. Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13. The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.
14. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.