Lamentations 4:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ Those who ate delicacies Have been laid waste in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Have embraced dunghills.

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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 Yisra’ĕ

2 Kings 18:27

And the Raḇ

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the hills, and have embraced a rock for lack of shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid of snow for her household, For all her household is dressed in scarlet.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people are sighing, seeking bread. They have given their precious matters For food, to bring back life. “See, O יהוה, and look, For I have become despised.”

Luke 15:16

“And he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods which the pigs were eating, and no one gave to him.

Luke 16:19

“But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.

Luke 7:25

“But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Look, those who are splendidly dressed and living in luxury are in the houses of sovereigns.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who is living in luxury is dead while she lives.