Lamentations 4:5

The Scriptures 2009

Those who ate delicacies Have been laid waste in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Have embraced dunghills.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

“Daughters of Yisra’ĕl – weep over Sha’ul, Who wrapped you in scarlet, with finery; Who decked your robes with ornaments of gold.

2 Kings 18:27

And the Raḇshaqĕh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and drink their own urine, with you?”

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the hills, and have embraced a rock for lack of shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid of snow for her household, For all her household is dressed in scarlet.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people are sighing, seeking bread. They have given their precious matters For food, to bring back life. “See, O יהוה, and look, For I have become despised.”

Luke 15:16

“And he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods which the pigs were eating, and no one gave to him.

Luke 16:19

“But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.

Luke 7:25

“But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Look, those who are splendidly dressed and living in luxury are in the houses of sovereigns.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who is living in luxury is dead while she lives.