Lamentations 4:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Even jackals bare their breasts
    and nurse their young.
But the daughters of my people have become
    as cruel as ostriches^[a] in the desert.
⁴ The tongue of an infant
    sticks to the roof of its mouth in thirst.
Little children beg for bread,
    but no one offers them a crumb.
⁵ Those who once feasted on delicacies
    now lie dying in the streets.
Those who once wore purple garments
    now grovel in rubbish heaps.