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Lamentations 4:3-5
Contemporary English Version
Lamentations 4:3-5
Contemporary English Version
3 Even jackals[a] nurse their young,
but my people are like ostriches
that abandon their own.
4 Babies are so thirsty
that their tongues are stuck
to the roof of the mouth.
Children go begging for food,
but no one gives them any.
5 All who ate expensive foods
lie starving in the streets;
those who grew up in luxury
now sit on trash heaps.
Footnotes
- 4.3 jackals: Desert animals related to wolves, but smaller.
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