Lamentations 4:4-6

New International Reader's Version

⁴ When the babies get thirsty,
    their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths.
When the children beg for bread,
    no one gives them any.

⁵ Those who once ate fine food
    are dying in the streets.
Those who wore royal clothes
    are now lying on piles of trash.

⁶ My people have been punished
    more than Sodom was.
It was destroyed in a moment.
    No one offered it a helping hand.