New American Bible, Revised Edition

Lamentations 5:10-17 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

10. Our skin heats up like an oven,from the searing blasts of famine.

11. Women are raped in Zion,young women in the cities of Judah;

12. Princes have been hanged by them,elders shown no respect.

13. Young men carry millstones,boys stagger under loads of wood;

14. The elders have abandoned the gate,the young men their music.

15. The joy of our hearts has ceased,dancing has turned into mourning;

16. The crown has fallen from our head:woe to us that we sinned!

17. Because of this our hearts grow sick,at this our eyes grow dim: