Lamentations 4:5

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

2 Kings 18:27

But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

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

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to refresh the soul: see, O LORD, and behold; for I am become vile.

Luke 15:16

And he would fain have been filled with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

Luke 16:19

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:

Luke 7:25

But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.