Lamentations 4:5

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Cross References

Luke 16:19

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:

Luke 15:16

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Luke 7:25

But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed with scarlet.

2 Samuel 1:24

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

2 Kings 18:27

But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.