Lamentations 4:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with crimson, in 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 speak these words to your master and to you and not to the people sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”

Job 24:8

They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all her household are clothed in crimson.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their lives. Look, O Lord, and see how worthless I have become.

Luke 15:16

He would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 7:25

What, then, did you go out to see? Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who put on fine clothing and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

1 Timothy 5:6

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