Lamentations 4:6-8

International Children’s Bible

⁶ My people have been punished
    more than Sodom was.
Sodom was destroyed suddenly.
    No hands reached out to help her.

⁷ Our princes were purer than snow.
    They were whiter than milk.
Their bodies were redder than rubies.
    Their faces shined like sapphires.

⁸ But now they are blacker than coal.
    No one even recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin is stretched over their bones.
    It is as dry as wood.