Lamentations 4:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ Even the jackals give the breast
    and suckle their young,
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
    like the ostriches in the wilderness.

⁴ The tongue of the nursling cleaves
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
the children beg for food,
    but no one gives to them.

⁵ Those who feasted on dainties
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    lie on ash heaps.