Lamentations 4:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ Those who used to eat delicacies are destitute in the streets; those who were brought up in purple garments huddle in rubbish heaps.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ They that did feed delicately Are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up In scarlet embrace dunghills.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Those who feasted on dainties are perishing in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie cleaving to refuse and ash heaps.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Common English Bible

⁵ Those who once ate gourmet food now tremble in the streets. Those who wore the finest purple clothes now cling to piles of garbage.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ HE. Those who were fed indulgently have passed away in the roads. Those who were nourished with saffron have welcomed filth.

Lamentations 4:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with luxurious things, who decked your garments with gold ornaments.

2 Kings 18:27

But the royal spokesman said to them, ‘Has my master sent me to speak these words only to your master and to you? Hasn’t he also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine? ’

Job 24:8

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against   the rocks, without shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all in her household are doubly clothed.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan while they search for bread. They have traded their precious belongings for food in order to stay alive. Lord, look and see how I have become despised.

Luke 15:16

He longed to eat his fill from   the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything.

Luke 16:19

‘There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen,   feasting lavishly every day.

Luke 7:25

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothes? See, those who are splendidly dressed and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

1 Timothy 5:6

however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.