Lamentations 4:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ Those who feasted on dainties
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    lie on ash heaps.

⁶ For the chastisement^[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment^[b] of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
    no hand being laid on it.^[c]

⁷ Her princes were purer than snow,
    whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
    the beauty of their form^[d] was like sapphire.^[e]