Lamentations 4:7-9

World English Bible

⁷ Her nobles were purer than snow.
    They were whiter than milk.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
    Their polishing was like sapphire.

⁸ Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
    They are not known in the streets.
Their skin clings to their bones.
    It is withered.
    It has become like a stick.

⁹ Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;
    For these pine away, stricken through,
    for lack of the fruits of the field.