Lamentations 4:7
Berean Standard Bible
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance * like sapphires.*
Context
5Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets;
those brought up in crimson
huddle in ash heaps. 6The punishment * of the daughter of my people
is greater than that of Sodom,
which was overthrown in an instant
without a hand turned to help her. 7Her dignitaries were brighter than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than rubies,
their appearance * like sapphires.* 8But now their appearance is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as a stick. 9Those slain by the sword are better off
than those who die of hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.
English text: Berean Standard Bible (BSB). English audio: Berean Standard Audio Bible.