10. Our skin is as hot as an ovenbecause of the burning heat of famine.
11. Women have been raped in Zion,young women in Judah’s cities.
12. Officials have been hung up by their hands;elders have been shown no respect.
13. Young men have carried grinding stones;boys have stumbled under loads of wood.
14. Elders have left the city gate;young people stop their music.
15. Joy has left our heart;our dancing has changed into lamentation.
16. The crown has fallen off our head.We are doomed because we have sinned.
17. Because of all this our heart is sick;because of these things our glance is dark.
18. Mount Zion, now deserted—only jackals walk on it now!