Lamentations 4:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ Even wild dogs
    nurse their young pups.
But my people are as mean
    as ostriches in the desert.

⁴ When the babies get thirsty,
    their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths.
When the children beg for bread,
    no one gives them any.

⁵ Those who once ate fine food
    are dying in the streets.
Those who wore royal clothes
    are now lying on piles of trash.