All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their treasures for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I have become despised.

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.

You have called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have cared for and brought up has my enemy consumed.

He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

My enemies chased me hard, like a bird, without cause.

The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.

They that did eat delicacies are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.

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

We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.