ג Gimel
3 Even ajackals offer the breast;
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become bcruel
Like costriches in the wilderness.
ד Daleth
4 The atongue of the nursing baby cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because of bthirst;
The infants cask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
ה He
5 Those who ate adelicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those reared in crimson
Embrace ash pits.
ו Vav
6 So the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the asin of Sodom,
Which was boverthrown as in a moment,
And no hands whirled toward her.
ז Zayin
7 Her Nazirites were apurer than snow;
They were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than corals,
Their polishing was like blapis lazuli.
ח Heth
8 Their form is ablacker than soot;
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their bskin is shriveled on their bones;
It is withered, it has become like wood.
ט Teth
9 Better are those apierced through with the sword
Than those pierced through with hunger;
For their life bflows away, being stricken
For lack of the produce of the field.
י Yodh
10 The hands of compassionate women
aBoiled their own children;
They became bfood for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
כ Kaph
11 Yahweh has aspent His wrath;
He has poured out His burning anger;
And He has bkindled a fire in Zion
Which has devoured its foundations.
ל Lamedh
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of athe inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Could benter the gates of Jerusalem.