Lamentations 4:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ Those who feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    cling to ash heaps.

⁶ For the chastisement^[a] of my people has been greater
    than the punishment^[b] of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
    though no hand was laid on it.^[c]

⁷ Her princes were purer than snow,
    whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
    their hair^[d] like sapphire.^[e]