Lamentations 5:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ Slaves rule over us,
    and no one delivers us from their control.^[a]

⁹ We risk our lives to obtain our food,
    facing death^[b] in the desert.

¹⁰ Our skin blisters^[c] as from an oven,
    due to ravaging blasts of the famine.