10. Our skin is black like an oven,because of the burning heat of famine.
11. They ravished the women in Zion,the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12. Princes were hanged up by their hands.The faces of elders were not honoured.
13. The young men carry millstones.The children stumbled under loads of wood.
14. The elders have ceased from the gate,and the young men from their music.
15. The joy of our heart has ceased.Our dance is 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 are dim.
18. For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.The foxes walk on it.
19. You, Lord, remain forever.Your throne is from generation to generation.
20. Why do you forget us forever,and forsake us for so long a time?