^{1 Ref} How is the gold become dim! `how' is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

^{2 Ref} The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

^{3 Ref} Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

^{4 Ref} The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

^{5 Ref} They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

^{6 Ref} For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.

^{7 Ref} Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.

^{8 Ref} Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

^{9 Ref} They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

^{10 Ref} The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^{11 Ref} Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

^{12 Ref} The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

^{13 Ref} `It is' because of the sins of her prophets, `and' the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.