ECB(i)
7 Her Separatists were purified as snow - dazzling whiter than milk; their bones more reddened than pearls; their separatism of sapphire:
8 their form becomes darker than darkness - not recognized in the outways; their skin adheres to their bones - withers; becomes as wood.
9 Those pierced with the sword are better than those pierced with famine; for they flow away stabbed because of the produce of the field.