Lamentations 4:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.”
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“Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 4:5 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:54The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
- Deuteronomy 28:56The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
- 2 Samuel 1:24O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.
- 2 Kings 18:27But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- Job 24:8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
- Proverbs 31:21When it snows, she has no fear for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.
- Isaiah 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
- Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
- Isaiah 32:9Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
- Jeremiah 6:2Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
- Jeremiah 9:21For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
- Lamentations 1:11All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
- Amos 6:3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
- Luke 7:25Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
- Luke 15:16He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
- Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
- 1 Timothy 5:6But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
- Revelation 18:7As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
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