Lamentations 4:3-5

Modern English Version

³ Even the jackals offer the breast;
    they nurse their young,
yet the daughter of my people has become cruel,
    like ostriches in the wilderness.

⁴ The tongue of the infant cleaves
    to the roof of his mouth for thirst;
the children beg for bread,
    but no one divides it for them.

⁵ Those who once ate delicacies
    are desolate in the streets;
those who were brought up in scarlet
    embrace ash heaps.