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Those who used to eat delicacies
    are desolate in the streets.
Those who were brought up in purple
    embrace trash heaps.
For the iniquities of the daughter of my people
    is greater than the sin of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,[a]
    yet no hands turned to her.
Purer than snow were her princes,[b]
    whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
    their appearance like sapphire.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 cf. Luke 10:12; 2 Pet. 2:6.
  2. Lamentations 4:7 Or, Nazirite, consecrated ones.