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Lamentations 4:5

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

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Lamentations 4:5 in other translations

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

Lamentations 4:5 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 4:5 in context

  1. 3Even the jackals offer their breast.
    They nurse their young ones.
    But the daughter of my people has become cruel,
    like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  2. 4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.
    The young children ask bread,
    and no one breaks it for them.
  3. 5Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
    Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
  4. 6For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
    which was overthrown as in a moment.
    No hands were laid on her.
  5. 7Her nobles were purer than snow.
    They were whiter than milk.
    They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
    Their polishing was like sapphire.