7. Our ancestors sinned, but they have died—and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!
8. Slaves have now become our masters;there is no one left to rescue us.
9. We hunt for food at the risk of our lives,for violence rules the countryside.
10. The famine has blackened our skinas though baked in an oven.
11. Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalemand the young girls in all the towns of Judah.