Parallel Verses
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 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.
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 (Dalet) The infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel. 5 (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. 6 (Vav) The punishment of my people exceeded that of of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her.
Cross References
Amos 6:3-7
You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come, but you establish a reign of violence.
2 Samuel 1:24
O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet as well as jewelry, who put gold jewelry on your clothes.
Deuteronomy 28:54-56
The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.
Job 24:8
They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.
Proverbs 31:21
She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all of her household are clothed with scarlet.
Isaiah 3:16-26
The Lord says, "The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.
Isaiah 24:6-12
So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.
Isaiah 32:9-14
You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say!
Jeremiah 6:2-3
I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.
Jeremiah 9:21-22
Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.'
Luke 7:25
What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings' courts!
Luke 15:16
He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
Luke 16:19
"There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
1 Timothy 5:6
But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
Revelation 18:7-9
As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, 'I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!'