Lamentations 4:5
Lamentations chapter 4 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Context
v.4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
v.5This passage
v.6For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- Luke 15:16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
- Isaiah 24:6
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
- Deuteronomy 28:54
The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining;
- Amos 6:3
—ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- Proverbs 31:21
She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed with scarlet.