Lamentations 4:5

God's Word

Those who used to eat delicacies are now destitute in the streets. Those who used to wear expensive clothes now pick through piles of garbage.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel, cry over Saul, who dressed you in decorated, red clothes, who put gold jewelry on your clothes.

2 Kings 18:27

But the field commander asked them, “Did my master send me to tell these things only to you and your master? Didn’t he send me to the men sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?”

Job 24:8

They are drenched by the rainstorms in the mountains. They hug the rocks because they can’t find shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She does not fear for her family when it snows because her whole family has a double layer of clothing.

Lamentations 1:11

All the people are groaning as they beg for bread. They trade their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. ‘O Lord, look and see how despised I am!’ ”

Luke 15:16

No one in the country would give him any food, and he was so hungry that he would have eaten what the pigs were eating.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who wore expensive clothes. Every day was like a party to him.

Luke 7:25

Really, what did you go to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Those who wear splendid clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead although she is still alive.