Lamentations 4:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash heaps.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

“Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you daintily in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon 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 men 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 of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O Lord, and behold, for I am despised.”

Luke 15:16

And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 7:25

What then did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are in kings' courts.

1 Timothy 5:6

whereas she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.