7. Her princes were purer than snow,whiter than milk;their bodies were more ruddy than rubies,their appearance like sapphire.
8. Their form is blacker than coal;they are not recognized in the streets;their skin cleaves to their bones,it has become as dry as wood.
9. Those killed by the swordare better off than those who die of hunger,for they pine away,stricken for want of the fruits of the field.
10. The hands of compassionate womenhave boiled their own children;they became their food in the destructionof the daughter of my people.
11. The Lord has fulfilled His fury,He has poured out His fierce anger.He kindled a fire in Zion,and it has devoured its foundations.
12. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world,would not have believedthat the adversary and the enemy could enterthe gates of Jerusalem.
13. This was for the sins of her prophetsand the iniquities of her priests,who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.
14. They wandered,blind, in the streets;they have defiled themselves with blood,so that no one could touch their garments.