³ Even jackals offer their breasts
    to nurse their young,
but my people have become heartless
    like ostriches in the desert.^(A)

⁴ Because of thirst^(B) the infant’s tongue
    sticks to the roof of its mouth;^(C)
the children beg for bread,
    but no one gives it to them.^(D)

⁵ Those who once ate delicacies
    are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple^(E)
    now lie on ash heaps.^(F)

⁶ The punishment of my people
    is greater than that of Sodom,^(G)
which was overthrown in a moment
    without a hand turned to help her.

¹⁶ The Lord says,
    “The women of Zion^(A) are haughty,
walking along with outstretched necks,^(B)
    flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
    with ornaments jingling on their ankles.