Lamentations 4:4-9

New King James Version

⁴ The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
^(A)The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.

⁵ Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
^(B)Embrace ash heaps.

⁶ The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the ^(C)sin of Sodom,
Which was ^(D)overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!

⁷ Her ^[a]Nazirites were ^[b]brighter than snow
And whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Like sapphire in their ^[c]appearance.

⁸ Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
^(E)Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.

⁹ Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these ^(F)pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the ^(G)field.