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1 |Look how the gold has become tarnished! The fine gold has changed! The sacred stones are scattered at every street corner. 2 |Zion's precious children, who are worth their weight in fine gold, are now treated like clay pots, like those made by a potter's hands. 3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the women of my people are as cruel as wild ostriches. 4 The tongues of nursing infants stick to the roofs of their mouths because of their thirst. Little children beg for bread, but no one will break off a piece for them. 5 Those who used to eat delicacies are now destitute in the streets. Those who used to wear expensive clothes now pick through piles of garbage. Lamentations 4:1-5, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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