Lamentations 4:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ ·Our [or Her] princes were purer than snow,
    and whiter than milk.
Their bodies were redder than ·rubies [or coral];
    they looked like ·sapphires [lapis lazuli].

⁸ But now ·they [^Ltheir faces] are blacker than coal,
    and no one recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin ·hangs [or shrivels] on their bones;
    it is as dry as wood.

⁹ Those who were ·killed [^Lpierced] ·in the war [^Lby the sword] were better off
    than those ·killed [^Lpierced] by ·hunger [famine].
They ·starve in pain and die [drain/waste away],
    ·because there is no food from the field [^Ldeprived of the produce of the field; Jer. 11:22; 14:12–18].