1How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed!
2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold,
3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones:
4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst:
5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:
6For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
7Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk;
8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets:
9They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger;
10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;
11Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger;
12The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world,
13It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests,
14They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood,
15Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not!
16The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them:
17Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help:
18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets:
19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens:
20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits;
21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz:
22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: