Lamentations 4:3-5

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ Even jackals offer a breast and nurse their young,
    but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
⁴ The baby’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth because of thirst.
    Children ask for bread, but no one shares with them.
⁵ Those who ate delicacies have become desolate in the streets.
    Those who were dressed in scarlet have embraced piles of trash.