The tongue of the nursing infant (A)sticks
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)the children beg for food,
    but no one gives to them.

Those who once feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
(C)those who were brought up in purple
    embrace ash heaps.

(D)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(E)which was overthrown in a moment,
    and no hands were wrung for her.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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