Parallel Verses
Amplified
Those who feasted on delicacies
Are perishing in the streets;
Those reared in purple [as nobles]
Embrace ash heaps.
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.
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
The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The little ones ask for food,
But no one gives it to them.
Those who feasted on delicacies
Are perishing in the streets;
Those reared in purple [as nobles]
Embrace ash heaps.
For the [punishment of the] wickedness of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem]
Is greater than the [punishment for the] sin of Sodom,
Which was overthrown in a moment,
And no hands were turned toward her [to offer help].
Cross References
Amos 6:3-7
Do you put off the day of punishment,
Yet cause the seat of violence to come near?
2 Samuel 1:24
“O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
Who clothed you
Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
Deuteronomy 28:54-56
The man who is most refined and well-bred among you
Job 24:8
“They are wet from the rain of the mountains
And cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
Proverbs 31:21
She does not fear the snow for her household,
For all in her household are clothed in [expensive] scarlet [wool].
Isaiah 3:16-26
Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are proud
And walk with outstretched necks and seductive (flirtatious, alluring) eyes,
And trip along with mincing steps and an affected gait
And walk with jingling
Isaiah 24:6-12
Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer the punishment of their guilt. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned [under the curse of God’s wrath], and few people are left.
Isaiah 32:9-14
Rise up, you women who are carefree,
And hear my voice,
You confident and unsuspecting daughters!
Listen to what I am saying.
Jeremiah 6:2-3
“I will destroy the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), the lovely and delicate one [so like a luxurious pasture].
Jeremiah 9:21-22
For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces,
Cutting off the children from the streets
And the young men from the town squares.
Luke 7:25
Luke 15:16
Luke 16:19
1 Timothy 5:6
Whereas she who lives for pleasure and self-indulgence is spiritually dead even while she still lives.
Revelation 18:7-9
To the degree that she glorified herself and reveled and gloated in her sensuality [living deliciously and luxuriously], to that same degree impose on her torment and anguish, and mourning and grief; for in her heart she boasts, ‘I sit as a queen [on a throne] and I am not a widow, and will never, ever see mourning or experience grief.’