The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,

The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,

Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.

O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings' courts.

but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.'

Brought

"You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

"There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Embrace

They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

General references

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground.