Lamentations 4:5 “Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brou…”

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They that did feede delicately, perish in the streetes: they that were brought vp in skarlet, embrace the dongue.

Darby Translation

They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

Young's Literal Translation

Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

Bible in Basic English

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

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Cross references

“that did”

Amos 6:3–7 Deuteronomy 28:54–56 Isaiah 24:6–12 Luke 7:25 1 Timothy 5:6 Revelation 18:7–9

Amos 6:3–7 · BSB

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Deuteronomy 28:54–56 · BSB

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Isaiah 24:6–12 · BSB

Therefore 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.

Luke 7:25 · BSB

Otherwise, 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.

1 Timothy 5:6 · BSB

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

Revelation 18:7–9 · BSB

As 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.’

“brought”

Luke 16:19 Proverbs 31:21 2 Samuel 1:24

Luke 16:19 · BSB

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

Proverbs 31:21 · BSB

When it snows, she has no fear for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.

2 Samuel 1:24 · BSB

O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.

“embrace”

Luke 15:16 Job 24:8 Jeremiah 9:21 Jeremiah 9:22

Luke 15:16 · BSB

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Job 24:8 · BSB

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Jeremiah 9:21 · BSB

For 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.

Jeremiah 9:22 · BSB

Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

6The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

Read Lamentations 4