Lamentations 4:5 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁵ Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Lamentations 4:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

“Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you daintily in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

2 Kings 18:27

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 men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”

Job 24:8

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

Proverbs 31:21

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

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O Lord, and behold, for I am despised.”

Luke 15:16

And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 7:25

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

1 Timothy 5:6

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