O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with crimson, in luxury, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
Lamentations 4:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They that did feed delicately Are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up In scarlet embrace dunghills. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. Common English Bible 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 HE. Those who were fed indulgently have passed away in the roads. Those who were nourished with saffron have welcomed filth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung. |
O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with crimson, in luxury, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you and not to the people sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”
They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all her household are clothed in crimson.
All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their lives. Look, O Lord, and see how worthless I have become.
He would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything.
“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
What, then, did you go out to see? Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who put on fine clothing and live in luxury are in royal palaces.