Lamentations 5:8-10

The Voice

⁸ Those less capable and less deserving slaves rule;
    they are actually in charge of us—
Your chosen ones—and nobody sets it right.
    Nobody comes to rescue us from their cruel hand.
⁹ At risk of life and limb, we seek our daily food
    despite threats of sword and danger in the wild places.
¹⁰ We are feverish with hunger.
    Famine’s scorching heat burns our flesh like an oven.