4 We pay silver for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 Our pursuers are at our necks. We are weary and have no rest.
6 We have held out our hand to Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
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 desert.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven due to fever from famine.