Lamentations 4:3-10 Surely jackals drew out the breasts; their whelps suckled the daughters of my people, to make them unnatural as the ostrich in the desert.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Surely jackals drew out the breasts; their whelps suckled the daughters of my people, to make them unnatural as the ostrich in the desert. ⁴ The tongue of a sucking babe cleaved to the roof of its mouth for thirst: infants asked for bread, there is none who breaketh it for them. ⁵ They who had fed upon dainties perished in the highways; they who had been nursed in scarlet were covered with dung. ⁶ The transgression of the daughter of my people was greater than that of Sodom which was overthrown suddenly, without tiring hands with it. ⁷ Her Nazarites were purer than snow; they were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy than a sapphire. Behold their change! ⁸ Their visage became blacker than soot. They are not distinguished in the streets. Their skin is shrivelled to their bones. They are withered. They are become like a stick. ⁹ The victims of the sword are more beautiful than those slain by famine. These stalked about pierced through for want of the fruits of the field. ¹⁰ The hands of tender hearted women boiled their own children; these were food for them in the extreme distress of the daughter of my people.