Lamentations 4:1-4

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4 How the finest gold has lost its luster! For the inlaid^[a] Temple walls are scattered in the streets! ² The cream of our youth—the finest of the gold—are treated as earthenware pots. ^3-4 Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people, Israel. They are like cruel desert ostriches, heedless of their babies’ cries. The children’s tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths for thirst, for there is not a drop of water left. Babies cry for bread, but no one can give them any.