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Babies are so thirsty
that their tongues are stuck
    to the roof of the mouth.
Children go begging for food,
    but no one gives them any.
All who ate expensive foods
    lie starving in the streets;
those who grew up in luxury
    now sit on trash heaps.

(A) My nation was punished worse
    than the people of Sodom,
whose city was destroyed
in a flash without the help
    of human hands.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4.6 hands: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 6.

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