Add parallel Print Page Options

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
    Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
    which was overthrown as in a moment.
    No hands were laid on her.

Her nobles were purer than snow.
    They were whiter than milk.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
    Their polishing was like sapphire.

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter