1 on our necks we are hard driven;
we are weary; we are given no rest.
6 Egypt and Assyria
to get enough bread.
7 Jer 14.20 Our ancestors sinned; they are no more,
and we bear their iniquities.
8 Neh 5.15; Zech 11.6 Slaves rule over us;
there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Lam 4.8 Our skin is black as an oven
from the scorching heat of famine.
11 Isa 13.16; Zech 14.2 Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.
12 Lam 4.16 Princes are hung up by their hands;
no respect is shown to the elders.
13 Jer 7.18 Young men are compelled to grind,
and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14The old men have left the city gate,
the young men their music.
15 Jer 25.10 The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Ps 6.7; Isa 1.5 Because of this our hearts are sick;
because of these things our eyes have grown dim:
18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.
19 Ps 9.7; 102.12, 25–27 But you, O Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures to all generations.
20 Ps 13.1 Why have you forgotten us completely?
Why have you forsaken us these many days?
21 Jer 31.18 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored;
renew our days as of old—
22 Isa 64.9; Jer 7.29 unless you have utterly rejected us
and are angry with us beyond measure.
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