Lamentations
Chapters 5:5-11
Revised Version 1885
5Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.