⁵ Those who once ate delicacies
    are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple^(A)
    now lie on ash heaps.^(B)

⁶ 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.

⁷ Their princes were brighter than snow
    and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
    their appearance like lapis lazuli.