Lamentations 5:6-8

The Voice

⁶ So what else could we do? We succumbed to agreements with Egypt and Assyria
    just so we could get enough to eat and survive.
⁷ Our fathers sinned and got us into this.
    Now they’ve passed on, and we suffer for it and bear their deeds.
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.