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Lamentations 4:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Lamentations 4:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 Even jackals bare their breasts
and nurse their young.
But the daughters of my people have become
as cruel as ostriches[a] in the desert.
4 The tongue of an infant
sticks to the roof of its mouth in thirst.
Little children beg for bread,
but no one offers them a crumb.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
now lie dying in the streets.
Those who once wore purple garments
now grovel in rubbish heaps.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:3 Ostriches: it was thought that ostriches did not take care of their young.