Lamentations 4:3-5

GOD’S WORD Translation

³ Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young,
but the women of my people are as cruel as wild ostriches.
⁴ The tongues of nursing infants stick to the roofs of their mouths
because of their thirst.
Little children beg for bread,
but no one will break off a piece for them.
⁵ Those who used to eat delicacies are now destitute in the streets.
Those who used to wear expensive clothes now pick through piles of garbage.