^{2 Ref} Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

^{3 Ref} We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

^{4 Ref} We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

^{5 Ref} Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

^{6 Ref} We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.