3. Even wild dogs nurse their young pups. But my people are as mean as ostriches in the desert.
4. When our babies get thirsty, their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths. When our children beg for bread, no one gives them any.
5. Those who once ate fine food are dying in the streets. Those who wore fancy clothes are now lying on piles of trash.
6. My people have been punished more than Sodom was. It was destroyed in a moment. No one offered it a helping hand.
7. Jerusalem 's princes were brighter than snow. They were whiter than milk. Their bodies were redder than rubies. They looked like sapphires.
8. But now they are blacker than coal. No one even recognizes them in the streets. Their skin is wrinkled on their bones. It has become as dry as a stick.
9. Those who have been killed with swords are better off than those who have to die of hunger. Those who are hungry waste away to nothing. They don't have any food from the fields.
10. With their own hands, loving mothers have had to cook even their own children. They ate their children when my people were destroyed.