Lamentations 5:2-7

2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.

4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.

5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.

6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.

7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!