You daughters of Yisra'el, weep over Sha'ul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
Lamentations 4:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They that did feed delicately Are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up In scarlet embrace dunghills. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Those who feasted on dainties are perishing in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie cleaving to refuse and ash heaps. American Standard Version (1901) They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. Common English Bible Those who once ate gourmet food now tremble in the streets. Those who wore the finest purple clothes now cling to piles of garbage. Catholic Public Domain Version HE. Those who were fed indulgently have passed away in the roads. Those who were nourished with saffron have welcomed filth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung. |
You daughters of Yisra'el, weep over Sha'ul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
But Ravshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, LORD, and see; for I am become abject.
He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
*Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.