Lamentations 4:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷ Her nazirites were purer than snow; they were more dazzling than milk.
Their limbs were redder than coral; their bodies were sapphire.

⁸ But their appearance grew darker than soot; they weren’t recognized in the streets.
Their skin shriveled on their bones; it became dry like wood.

⁹ Things were better for those stabbed by the sword than for those stabbed by famine—
those who bled away, pierced, lacking food from the field.