Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5:8

Servants have ruled over us.

Not only the princes and great commanders of Chaldea have ruled over us, but even their very slaves insult upon us, and exercise cruelty upon us.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Even before this destruction, during the time of the siege, we were fain to get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the enemy, that lay encamped about us.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hanged up by their hand.

Our princes were driven to make their own hands their executioners.

Lamentations 5:13

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

They put our young men to all the servile and base drudgeries, that could be devised; and compelled our children to undergo those burdens, which they were not able to carry.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

All our glory is quite gone, and utterly cast down to the ground.

Lamentations 5:18

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

The bill of Zion, where the temple stood, which was so honoured, so frequented, is now so desolate, that the very foxes walk upon it.