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Lamentations 4:5-7
Good News Translation
Lamentations 4:5-7
Good News Translation
5 People who once ate the finest foods die starving in the streets;
those raised in luxury are pawing through garbage for food.
6 (A)My people have been punished even more than the inhabitants of Sodom,
which met a sudden downfall at the hands of God.
7 Our princes[a] were undefiled and pure as snow,
vigorous and strong, glowing with health.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:7 princes; or Nazirites.
Lamentations 4:5-7
New International Version
Lamentations 4:5-7
New International Version
5 Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple(A)
now lie on ash heaps.(B)
6 The punishment of my people
is greater than that of Sodom,(C)
which was overthrown in a moment
without a hand turned to help her.
7 Their princes were brighter than snow
and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
their appearance like lapis lazuli.
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