Lamentations 4:1-3

New International Reader's Version

4 Look at how the gold has lost its brightness!
    See how dull the fine gold has become!
The sacred jewels are scattered
    at every street corner.

² The priceless children of Zion
    were worth their weight in gold.
But now they are thought of as clay pots
    made by the hands of a potter.

³ Even wild dogs
    nurse their young pups.
But my people are as mean
    as ostriches in the desert.