Lamentations 4:5
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- that did
- Deuteronomy 28:54–56; Isaiah 3:16–26; Isaiah 24:6–12; Isaiah 32:9–14; Jeremiah 6:2, 3; Amos 6:3–7; Luke 7:25; 1 Timothy 5:6; Revelation 18:7–9
- brought
- 2 Samuel 1:24; Proverbs 31:21; Luke 16:19
- embrace
- Job 24:8; Jeremiah 9:21, 22; Luke 15:16