Lamentations 4:5

American Standard Version

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

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Lamentations 4:5 in other translations

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

Lamentations 4:5 · World English Bible

Lamentations 4:5 in context

  1. 3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  2. 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.
  3. 5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
  4. 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.
  5. 7Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.