Lamentations 4:5

New King James Version

Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Embrace ash heaps.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

“O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet, with luxury; Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

2 Kings 18:27

But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And huddle around the rock for want of shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

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

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their valuables for food to restore life. “See, O Lord, and consider, For I am scorned.”

Luke 15:16

And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 7:25

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are in kings’ courts.

1 Timothy 5:6

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