Lamentations 4:5

Tree of Life Version

Those who used to eat delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace trash heaps.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and finery, who put ornaments of gold on your clothes.

2 Kings 18:27

But the Rab-shakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall—who will eat their own wastes and drink their own urine with you?”

Job 24:8

They are drenched by mountain rains, and hug the rock for lack of shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid of snow for her house, for her whole household is clothed in scarlet wool.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, as they seek bread. They traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Adonai, and see! For I have become despised!”

Luke 15:16

And he was longing to fill up on the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one was giving him any.

Luke 16:19

“Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, living it up in luxury every day.

Luke 7:25

No? So what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine garments? Look, those who wear finery and live in luxury are in the palaces of kings!

1 Timothy 5:6

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