Orthodox Jewish Bible

Ekhah 5:6-12 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

6. We have submitted to the Mitzrayim, and to the Assyrians, to get enough lechem.

7. Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.

8. Avadim have ruled over us; there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad.

9. We get our lechem with the peril of our lives because of the cherev of the midbar.

10. Our skin was hot like an oven because we burn with ra'av (hunger, famine).

11. They ravished the nashim in Tziyon, and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah.

12. Sarim (princes) are hanged by their yad; the faces of Zekenim were not respected.