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Those who ate delicacies have become desolate in the streets.
    Those who were dressed in scarlet have embraced piles of trash.
The guilt of the daughter of my people was greater than the sin of Sodom,
    which was overthrown in a moment, though no hands turned against her.
Her consecrated ones[a] were brighter than snow. They were whiter than milk.
    Their bones were redder than rubies; their facets shined like sapphires.

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  1. Lamentations 4:7 Or Nazirites

Those who once ate delicacies
    are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple(A)
    now lie on ash heaps.(B)

The punishment of my people
    is greater than that of Sodom,(C)
which was overthrown in a moment
    without a hand turned to help her.

Their princes were brighter than snow
    and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
    their appearance like lapis lazuli.

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