Lamentations 4:7-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ Her consecrated ones^[a] were brighter than snow. They were whiter than milk.
    Their bones were redder than rubies; their facets shined like sapphires.
⁸ Now their faces have become the darkest black. They cannot be recognized in the streets.
    Their skin has shriveled on their bones. It is as dry as a stick of wood.
⁹ Those cut down by the sword are better off than those cut down by hunger,
    those who waste away, pierced with pain, with no crops to eat from the field.