Lamentations 4:4-5
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4Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.
5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.
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