³ Even jackals offer their breasts
    to nurse their young,
but my people have become heartless
    like ostriches in the desert.^(A)

⁴ Because of thirst^(B) the infant’s tongue
    sticks to the roof of its mouth;^(C)
the children beg for bread,
    but no one gives it to them.^(D)

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