1. How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!
2. The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3. Even the jackals offer the breast, they give suck to their young; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.
5. They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.