³ Even jackals bare their breasts
in order to nurse their young,
but the daughters of my people have become as cruel
as ostriches in the desert.

⁴ The tongue of the baby at the breast
sticks to the roof of its mouth from thirst;
young children are begging for bread,
but no one is giving them any.

⁵ People who once ate only the best
lie dying in the streets;
those who were raised wearing purple
are clawing at piles of garbage.