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Those who used to eat delicacies are now destitute in the streets.
    Those who used to wear expensive clothes now pick through piles of garbage.
The punishment for my people’s wickedness has been more severe
    than the punishment for the sins of Sodom.
        Sodom was destroyed instantly, without one human hand touching it.
Zion’s princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk.
    Their bodies were more pink than coral.
    Their hair was like sapphires.

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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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