LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers th

Thou have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of LORD's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.