Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those reared in purple
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 HeThose who used to eat delicacies
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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

מעדנּה מעדן 
Ma`adan 
Usage: 4

in the streets
חץ חוּץ 
Chuwts 
Usage: 164

in scarlet
תּלעת תּולעת תּולעה תּולע 
Towla` 
Usage: 43

חבק 
Chabaq 
Usage: 13

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Verse Info

Context Readings

Zion Is Punished

4 The tongue of the infant cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The little ones ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
5 Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those reared in purple
Embrace ash pits.
6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the sin of Sodom,
Which was overthrown as in a moment,
And no hands were turned toward her.

Cross References

Amos 6:3-7

Do you put off the day of calamity,
And would you bring near the seat of violence?

2 Samuel 1:24

“O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
Who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet,
Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

Deuteronomy 28:54-56

The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,

Job 24:8

“They are wet with the mountain rains
And hug the rock for want of a shelter.

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
For all her household are clothed with scarlet.

Isaiah 3:16-26

Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are proud
And walk with heads held high and seductive eyes,
And go along with mincing steps
And tinkle the bangles on their feet,

Isaiah 24:6-12

Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Isaiah 32:9-14

Rise up, you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;
Give ear to my word,
You complacent daughters.

Jeremiah 6:2-3

“The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.

Jeremiah 9:21-22

For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the children from the streets,
The young men from the town squares.

Luke 7:25

But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who are splendidly clothed and live in luxury are found in royal palaces!

Luke 15:16

And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

Luke 16:19

“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.

Revelation 18:7-9

To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’

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