Lamentations 4:5

Easy To Read Version

The people that at one time ate rich food\par now are dying in the streets.\par The people that grew up\par wearing nice red clothes\par now pick through garbage piles.\par

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel, cry for Saul! Saul gave you beautiful red dresses and covered them with gold jewelry!

2 Kings 18:27

But Rabshakeh said to them, “My lord did not send me to speak only to you and your king. [231] I also speak to the other people that sit on the wall! They will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you! [232] ”

Job 24:8

They are soaked with rain\par in the mountains.\par They have nothing to protect them\par from the cold.\par So they huddle close to the large rocks.\par

Proverbs 31:21

She doesn’t worry about her family\par when it snows.\par She has given them all good, warm clothes.\par

Lamentations 1:11

All the people of Jerusalem are groaning.\par All of her people are looking for food.\par They are giving away all their nice things for food.\par They are doing this to keep alive.\par Jerusalem says,\par “Look, Lord. Look at me!\par See how people hate me.\par

Luke 15:16

The son was so hungry that he wanted to eat the food that the pigs were eating. But no person gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

Jesus said, “There was a rich man that always dressed in the finest clothes. He was so rich that he was able to enjoy all the best things every day.

Luke 7:25

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No. Those people that have fine, nice clothes live in kings’ houses.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is still living.