Lamentations 5:9-13

We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the ravages of hunger.

They violated the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Leaders were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths staggered under loads of wood.