Lamentations 4:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² The priceless children of Zion
    were worth their weight in gold.
But now they are thought of as clay pots
    made by the hands of a potter.

³ Even wild dogs
    nurse their young pups.
But my people are as mean
    as ostriches in the desert.

⁴ When the babies get thirsty,
    their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths.
When the children beg for bread,
    no one gives them any.