Lam 4:4-6 | ESV | STEP | The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst ; the children beg for food , but no one gives to them.

Lamentations 4:4-6

4 The tongue of the nursing infant ^asticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
^bthe children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
^cthose who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6 ^dFor the chastisement ^{▼▼Or iniquity} of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment ^{▼▼Or sin} of Sodom,
^gwhich was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}