Lamentations 4:1-3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

4 How the gold has become tarnished,
the fine gold become dull!
The stones of the temple^[a] lie scattered
at the corner of every street.^(A)

² Zion’s precious people—
once worth their weight in pure gold^(B)—
how they are regarded as clay jars,
the work of a potter’s hands!

³ Even jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches^(C) in the wilderness.