Lamentations 4:5

The Passion Translation

Those who used to feast on delicacies now lie dying in the streets. Those who were raised in luxury now huddle in garbage dumps.

Cross References

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid of tribulation, for all her household is covered in the dual garments of righteousness and grace.

Lamentations 1:11

Everyone is groaning, longing for anything to eat; they have traded their treasures for food in order to keep themselves alive. “Look, Yahweh, and consider how pathetic I have become!

Luke 15:16

The son was so famished, he was willing even to eat the slop given to the pigs, because no one would feed him a thing.

Luke 16:19

Jesus continued. “There once was a very rich man who had the finest things imaginable, living every day enjoying his life of opulent luxury.

Luke 7:25

Who did you go there to see? Did you expect to see a man decked out in the splendid fashion of the day living in the lap of luxury?

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who serves only herself lives a life of self-indulgence and is wasting her life away.