Lamentations 4:1-6 (Common English Bible)
View In My BibleThe people’s suffering
1 Oh, no! Gold is tarnished;a even the purest gold is changed. Sacred jewels are scattered on every street corner. 2 Zion's precious children, once valued as pure gold— oh no!—now they are worth no more than clay pots made by a potter. 3 Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like desert ostriches. 4 The baby's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth, thirsty. Children ask for bread, beg for it—but there is no bread. 5 Those who once ate gourmet food now tremble in the streets. Those who wore the finest purple clothes now cling to piles of garbage. 6 Greater was the punishmentb of the daughter of my people than Sodom's penalty,c which was quickly overthrown without any hand-wringing.dCopyright © 2011 Common English Bible (Common English Bible)
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