Lamentations 4:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ Those who once ate fine food
    are dying in the streets.
Those who wore royal clothes
    are now lying on piles of trash.

⁶ My people have been punished
    more than Sodom was.
It was destroyed in a moment.
    No one offered it a helping hand.

⁷ Jerusalem’s princes were brighter than snow.
    They were whiter than milk.
Their bodies were redder than rubies.
    They looked like lapis lazuli.