Lamentations 4:3-5

Common English Bible

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

⁴ The baby’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth, thirsty.
Children ask for bread, beg for it—but there is no bread.

⁵ Those who once ate gourmet food now tremble in the streets.
Those who wore the finest purple clothes now cling to piles of garbage.