3 We have become orphans and fatherless;our mothers are like widows.
4 We must pay for the water we drink;our wood is sold to us.
5 Our pursuers are at our necks;we labor and have no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt and to Assyria,to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more,but we bear their iniquities.
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.