8. Servants rule over us,with no one to tear us from their hands.
9. We risk our lives just to get bread,exposed to the desert heat;
10. Our skin heats up like an oven,from the searing blasts of famine.
11. Women are raped in Zion,young women in the cities of Judah;
12. Princes have been hanged by them,elders shown no respect.
13. Young men carry millstones,boys stagger under loads of wood;
14. The elders have abandoned the gate,the young men their music.
15. The joy of our hearts has ceased,dancing has turned into mourning;
16. The crown has fallen from our head:woe to us that we sinned!