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


In Context

2 The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How have they been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter.

3 Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.

4 Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

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

6 And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as in a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.

7 Purer were her Nazarites than snow, Whiter than milk, ruddier of body than rubies, Of sapphire their form.

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.