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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst:
The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:
They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
For [a]the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than [b]the sin of Sodom,
That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands [c]were laid upon her.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or, the punishment of the iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or, the punishment of the sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 Or, fell. See 2 Sam. 3:29.