Lamentations 4:7-9

Good News Translation

⁷ Our princes^[a] were undefiled and pure as snow,
    vigorous and strong, glowing with health.

⁸ Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death;
    their skin, dry as wood, has shriveled on their bones.

⁹ Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later,
    who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.