2. The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter’s hands.
3. Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; but the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness.
4. The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg for food, no one lays it out before them.
5. The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie on piles of trash.
6. The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her.
7. Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, sapphire their appearance.
8. Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.
9. Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.
10. The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11. Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out his fierce anger; he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her foundations.
12. The kings of the earth did not believe, and all the inhabitants of the world, that a foe and an enemy could enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
13. Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people.
14. They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.
15. “Go away! Defiled!” they shout to them. “Go away! Go away! Do not touch!” so they left, they left; it was said among the nations, “They will no longer dwell with us.”