Lamentations 4:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ Those who ate rich food
    are now dying in the streets.
Those who grew up wearing nice red clothes
    now pick through garbage piles.
⁶ The sin of the daughter of my people was very great.
    Their sin was greater than the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed suddenly.
    No human hand caused their destruction.^[a]
7 Some of the men of Judah were dedicated to God in a special way.
    They were very pure.
They were whiter than snow,
    and whiter than milk.
Their bodies were red like coral
    and their beards like sapphire stones.