All her people are sighing -- seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.