Lamentations 4:4-6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ The tongue of the nursling cleaves
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
the children beg for food,
    but no one gives to them.

⁵ Those who feasted on dainties
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    lie on ash heaps.

⁶ For the chastisement^[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment^[b] of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
    no hand being laid on it.^[c]