Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.