Lamentations 5:8-16

8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.

10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.

11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.

16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!