Lamentations 4:1-3

New Catholic Bible

¹ How the gold has become tarnished,
    how the pure gold has lost its luster!
The sacred stones lie scattered
    at every street corner.
² The precious sons of Zion
    were formerly worth their weight in gold.
Now they are reckoned as no more valuable
    than clay jars fashioned by a potter.
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.