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

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

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors around, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up, hath my enemy consumed.

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

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

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it to them.

They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that 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 procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.