Lamentations 4:5

New International Version

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

“Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and finery, who adorned your garments with ornaments of gold.

2 Kings 18:27

But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Job 24:8

They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Lord, and consider, for I am despised.”

Luke 15:16

He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 7:25

If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear expensive clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces.

1 Timothy 5:6

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