Lamentations 4:5

Modern English Version

Those who once ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.

Cross References

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 15:16

He would gladly have filled his stomach with the husks that the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

Luke 7:25

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Behold, those who are splendidly clothed and live luxuriously are in royal palaces.

Proverbs 31:21

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

2 Samuel 1:24

O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and jewels, who adorned your garments with gold jewelry.

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 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 about to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to restore their strength. Look, O  Lord, and consider, for I am despised.