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 mouthsbecause 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.
6 The punishment for my people’s wickedness has been more severethan the punishment for the sins of Sodom.Sodom was destroyed instantly, without one human hand touching it.
7 Zion’s princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk.Their bodies were more pink than coral.Their hair was like sapphires.
8 Their faces are ⌊now⌋ blacker than soot.No one recognizes them on the streets.Their skin has shriveled on their bones.It has become as dry as bark.
9 Those who were killed with swords are better offthan those who are dying from starvation.Those who were stabbed bled to death.The others are dying because there is nothing in the fields to eat.