⁴ How can we sing the songs of the Lord^(A)
    while in a foreign land?

3 ^[a]I am the man who has seen affliction^(A)
    by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.^(B)

⁴ Because of thirst^(A) the infant’s tongue
    sticks to the roof of its mouth;^(B)
the children beg for bread,
    but no one gives it to them.^(C)

¹¹ Women have been violated^(A) in Zion,
    and virgins in the towns of Judah.