Lamentations 4:5

English Standard Version 2016

Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.

Cross References

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 15:16

And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

1 Timothy 5:6

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

Luke 7:25

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings’ courts.

Proverbs 31:21

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

2 Samuel 1:24

“You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

Job 24:8

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

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?”

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 see, for I am despised.”