Those who used to eat (A)delicacies
Are made to tremble in the streets;
Those who were raised in crimson clothing
Embrace garbage heaps.
For the [a]wrongdoing of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the [b](B)sin of Sodom,
Which was (C)overthrown as in a moment,
[c]And no hands were turned toward her.
Her [d]consecrated ones were (D)purer than snow,
They shined more than milk;
They were more ruddy in [e]body than pearls of coral,
Their form was like [f](E)lapis lazuli.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or punishment for wrongdoing
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or punishment for sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 I.e., without human intervention
  4. Lamentations 4:7 Or Nazirites
  5. Lamentations 4:7 Lit bones
  6. Lamentations 4:7 Heb sappir

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