Lamentations

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.