Lamentations 4:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ The baby’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth, thirsty.
Children ask for bread, beg for it—but there is no bread.

⁵ Those who once ate gourmet food now tremble in the streets.
Those who wore the finest purple clothes now cling to piles of garbage.

⁶ Greater was the punishment^[a] of the daughter of my people than Sodom’s penalty,^[b]
    which was quickly overthrown without any hand-wringing.^[c]