Amplified Bible

Lamentations 5:9-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)

9. We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness [the wild Arabs, who may attack if we venture into the fields to reap our harvests].

10. Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

11. They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

12. They hung princes by their hands; the persons of elders were not respected.

13. Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood.

14. The elders have ceased from [congregating at] the city's gate, the young men from their music.

15. Ceased is the joy of our hearts; our dancing has turned into mourning.