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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.
New American Standard Bible
Are desolate in the streets;
Those
Embrace ash pits.
King James Version
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Holman Bible
ה He
are destitute in the streets;
those who were reared in purple garments
huddle in garbage heaps.
International Standard Version
Those who enjoyed delicacies lie desolate in the streets. Those who were reared wearing purple scavenge in piles of trash.
A Conservative Version
Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
American Standard Version
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Amplified
Those who feasted on delicacies
Are perishing in the streets;
Those reared in purple [as nobles]
Embrace ash heaps.
Darby Translation
They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.
Julia Smith Translation
They eating for dainties were desolate in the streets: they trusting upon scarlet embraced dung hills.
King James 2000
They that did eat delicacies are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie [on] piles of trash.
Modern King James verseion
Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those reared in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{He} They that were wont to fair delicately, perish in the streets; they that afore were brought up in purple, make now much of dung.
NET Bible
(He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage.
New Heart English Bible
Those who ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.
The Emphasized Bible
They who used to eat delicacies, are deserted in the streets, - They who used to be carried on crimson, have embraced heaps of refuse.
Webster
They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
World English Bible
Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Youngs Literal Translation
Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.
Themes
Colors » Crimson, red, purple, and scarlet, symbols of various ideas » Prosperity
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
4 The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them. 5 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. 6 For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.
Cross References
Amos 6:3-7
You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;
2 Samuel 1:24
O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses.
Deuteronomy 28:54-56
That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;
Job 24:8
They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
Proverbs 31:21
She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.
Isaiah 3:16-26
Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:
Isaiah 24:6-12
For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
Isaiah 32:9-14
Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.
Jeremiah 6:2-3
The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
Jeremiah 9:21-22
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
Luke 7:25
But what did you go out to see? a man in soft clothing? See now, those who have beautiful clothing and delicate food are in kings' houses.
Luke 15:16
And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.
Revelation 18:7-9
As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.