See, O Yahweh, that {I am in distress}; {my stomach} is in torment, my heart has turned inside me because I have certainly rebelled. From outside a sword brings bereavement, inside the house [it is] like death.

They lie in [the] soil of [the] streets, young and old; my young women and young men, they have fallen by the sword; you have slain on the day of {your anger}, you have slaughtered and not shown mercy.

Happier were [the] victims of [the] sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.

{We risk our life for food} because of the sword of the desert.