5They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.


In Context

2 The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

3 Even the jackals offer the breast, they give suck to their young; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.

5 They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

6 And the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the reward of the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were violently laid upon her.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their figure was as sapphire.

Lamentations 4:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those nurtured in purple now lie on ash heaps.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:5He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.