Lamentations 4:4-10

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4The nursing infant’s tongue
clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth.
Little children beg for bread,
but no one gives them any.
5Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets;
those brought up in crimson
huddle in ash heaps.
6The punishment of the daughter of my people
is greater than that of Sodom,
which was overthrown in an instant
without a hand turned to help her.
7Her dignitaries were brighter than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than rubies,
their appearance like sapphires.
8But now their appearance is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as a stick.
9Those slain by the sword are better off
than those who die of hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.
10The hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children,
who became their food
in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 4:4-10

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