Lamentations 5:7-9

The Voice

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.
⁹ At risk of life and limb, we seek our daily food
    despite threats of sword and danger in the wild places.