6. We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
8. Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9. We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10. Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.