Lamentations 4:6-8

Easy-to-Read Version

⁶ The sin of the daughter of my people was very great.
    Their sin was greater than the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed suddenly.
    No human hand caused their destruction.^[a]
7 Some of the men of Judah were dedicated to God in a special way.
    They were very pure.
They were whiter than snow,
    and whiter than milk.
Their bodies were red like coral
    and their beards like sapphire stones.
⁸ But now their faces are blacker than soot.
    No one even recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin is wrinkled over their bones.
    Their skin is like wood.