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Lamentations 4:5

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5 People used to the finest cuisine forage for food in the streets. People used to the latest in fashions pick through the trash for something to wear.
5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.
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