Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
4
Daleth The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and there was no one to break it unto them.
5
Are desolate in the streets;
Those
Embrace ash pits.
Cross References
Amos 6:3-7
Ye that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near;
2 Samuel 1:24
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Deuteronomy 28:54-56
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 which he shall leave,
Job 24:8
They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.
Proverbs 31:21
Lamed She shall not be afraid of the snow for her family, for all her family is clothed with double garments.
Isaiah 3:16-26
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and swaggering as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isaiah 24:6-12
Therefore the curse has consumed the earth, and those that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men left.
Isaiah 32:9-14
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Jeremiah 6:2-3
I shall liken the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Jeremiah 9:21-22
For death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets.
Luke 7:25
But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those that are gorgeously apparelled and live delicately are in kings' courts.
Luke 15:16
And he longed to fill his belly with the husks that the swine ate, but no one gave them unto him.
Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;
1 Timothy 5:6
but she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
Revelation 18:7-9
As much as she has glorified herself and lived deliciously, give her that much torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.