Lamentations 5:8-16

8Slaves now rule us. And there is nobody to save us from their power.

9We meet danger when we work in the fields. Enemies are everywhere and they want to kill us.

10Our skin feels as if we are burning. We are so hungry that we are ill.

11Enemies do what they want with the women in Zion. They are cruel to the young women in Judah's cities.

12They hang our leaders by their hands. And they are cruel to our old men too.

13They took the young men to make flour for them, like slaves. Our boys have to carry heavy bags of wood.

14Our enemies no longer let our old men decide things. The old men cannot say what is right or fair for us. And the young men have stopped their music.

15We are not happy any longer. Instead, we are very sad, so we do not dance any longer.

16And we have no king in Jerusalem any longer. We have sinned, so it will be very bad for us.