Lamentations 4:3-10

Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert. ד (Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel. ה (He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage. ו (Vav) The punishment of my people exceeded that of of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her. ז (Zayin) Her consecrated ones were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies more ruddy than corals, their hair like lapis lazuli. ח (Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark. ט (Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food. י (Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed. כ (Kaf)