Lamentations 4:5-7

International Children’s Bible

⁵ Those who once ate fine foods
    are now starving in the streets.
The people who grew up wearing nice clothes
    now pick through trash piles.

⁶ My people have been punished
    more than Sodom was.
Sodom was destroyed suddenly.
    No hands reached out to help her.

⁷ Our princes were purer than snow.
    They were whiter than milk.
Their bodies were redder than rubies.
    Their faces shined like sapphires.