⁵ Those who once ate ·fine foods [delicacies; ^Cthe food of the rich; Prov. 23:3, 6]
    are ·now starving [^Ldesolate] in the streets.
People who ·grew up [were nurtured] ·wearing nice clothes [^Lin purple/or crimson; ^Cexpensive clothes often associated with royalty]
    now ·pick through [cling to] ·trash piles [ash heaps; 1 Sam. 2:8; Job 2:8; Ps. 113:7].

⁶ ·My people have been punished
    more than Sodom was [^LThe iniquity/or punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin/or punishment of Sodom].
·Sodom [^L…which] was ·destroyed [^Loverturned] suddenly,
    and no hands ·reached out to help her [or were wrung; Gen. 19; Deut. 29:23; Is. 1:9–10; Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 16:46–56; Matt. 10:15; Jude 7; Rev. 11:8].

⁷ ·Our [or Her] princes were purer than snow,
    and whiter than milk.
Their bodies were redder than ·rubies [or coral];
    they looked like ·sapphires [lapis lazuli].