4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst:the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my peopleis greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,that was overthrown as in a moment,and no hands stayed on her.
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow,they were whiter than milk,they were more ruddy in body than rubies,their polishing was of sapphire:
8 their visage is blacker than a coal;they are not known in the streets:their skin cleaveth to their bones;it is withered, it is become like a stick.
9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger:for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children:they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.