Lamentations 4:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses.

2 Kings 18:27

But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

Proverbs 31:21

She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.

Lamentations 1:11

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

Luke 15:16

And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

Luke 7:25

But what did you go out to see? a man in soft clothing? See now, those who have beautiful clothing and delicate food are in kings' houses.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.