Lamentations 4:5 - Easy To Read Version

⁵ The people that at one time ate rich food\par now are dying in the streets.\par The people that grew up\par wearing nice red clothes\par now pick through garbage piles.\par

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ They that did feed delicately Are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up In scarlet embrace dunghills.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

⁵ They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Common English Bible

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Lamentations 4:5 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel, cry for Saul! Saul gave you beautiful red dresses and covered them with gold jewelry!

2 Kings 18:27

But Rabshakeh said to them, “My lord did not send me to speak only to you and your king. [231] I also speak to the other people that sit on the wall! They will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you! [232] ”

Job 24:8

They are soaked with rain\par in the mountains.\par They have nothing to protect them\par from the cold.\par So they huddle close to the large rocks.\par

Proverbs 31:21

She doesn’t worry about her family\par when it snows.\par She has given them all good, warm clothes.\par

Lamentations 1:11

All the people of Jerusalem are groaning.\par All of her people are looking for food.\par They are giving away all their nice things for food.\par They are doing this to keep alive.\par Jerusalem says,\par “Look, Lord. Look at me!\par See how people hate me.\par

Luke 15:16

The son was so hungry that he wanted to eat the food that the pigs were eating. But no person gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

Jesus said, “There was a rich man that always dressed in the finest clothes. He was so rich that he was able to enjoy all the best things every day.

Luke 7:25

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No. Those people that have fine, nice clothes live in kings’ houses.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is still living.