Lamentations 4:5

New Century Version

Those who once ate fine foods are now starving in the streets. People who grew up wearing nice clothes now pick through trash piles.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

“You daughters of Israel, cry for Saul. Saul clothed you with red dresses and put gold decorations on them.

2 Kings 18:27

“No,” the commander said, “my master did not send me to tell these things only to you and your king. He sent me to speak also to those people sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine like you.”

Job 24:8

They are soaked from mountain rains and stay near the large rocks because they have no shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She does not worry about her family when it snows, because they all have fine clothes to keep them warm.

Lamentations 1:11

All of Jerusalem’s people groan, looking for bread. They are trading their precious things for food so they can stay alive. The city says, “Look, Lord, and see. I am hated.”

Luke 15:16

The son was so hungry that he wanted to eat the pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

Jesus said, “There was a rich man who always dressed in the finest clothes and lived in luxury every day.

Luke 7:25

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, people who have fine clothes and much wealth live in kings’ palaces.

1 Timothy 5:6

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