Lamentations 4:5

New English Translation

Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage. ו (Vav)

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet as well as jewelry, who put gold jewelry on your clothes.

2 Kings 18:27

But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.”

Job 24:8

They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

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

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. They exchanged their valuables for just enough food to stay alive. “Look, O Lord! Consider that I have become worthless!” ל (Lamed)

Luke 15:16

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 7:25

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ courts!

1 Timothy 5:6

But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.