Lamentations 4:7-9

New Century Version

⁷ Our princes were purer than snow,
    and whiter than milk.
Their bodies were redder than rubies;
    they looked like sapphires.

⁸ But now they are blacker than coal,
    and no one recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin hangs on their bones;
    it is as dry as wood.

⁹ Those who were killed in the war were better off
    than those killed by hunger.
They starve in pain and die,
    because there is no food from the field.