The LORD is in the right, but I rebelled against his commands. Listen, please, all you people, and look at my pain my young men and women have gone into captivity.

I called out to my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders have died within the city while looking for something to eat to keep themselves alive.

As for us, we have sinned and rebelled; but you have not pardoned us.

They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone.

I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the Pit,

Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Celebrate and rejoice, you women of Edom, who live in the land of Uz. But to you the cup also will pass you will become drunk and stripped naked.

Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.