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Those who feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    cling to ash heaps.

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

Her princes were purer than snow,
    whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
    their hair[d] like sapphire.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. Lamentations 4:7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  5. Lamentations 4:7 Or lapis lazuli

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