Lamentations 4:1-5 ▼

1 How tarnished the gold has become, the finest gold debased! Sacred stones have been scattered at every street corner.

2 Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!

3 Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

4 The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

5 Those who enjoyed delicacies lie desolate in the streets. Those who were reared wearing purple scavenge in piles of trash.