Lamentations 4:5

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Lamentations 4:5

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

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KJV

King James Version

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

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WEB

World English Bible

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

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ASV

American Standard Version

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Lamentations 4

³ Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

⁴ The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

⁵ Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

⁶ The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

⁷ Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

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