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Lamentations 4:5

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5Those who ate adelicacies

Are desolate in the streets;

Those 1reared in purple

Embrace ash pits.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit established in crimson

Cross references

  1. aJer 6:2; Amos 6:3–7

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Those who once feasted on delicacies

perish in the streets;

those who were brought up in purple

embrace ash heaps.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Those who once ate delicacies

are destitute in the streets.

Those brought up in royal purple

now lie on ash heaps.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Those who used to eat delicacies

are destitute in the streets;

those who were reared in purple garments

huddle in trash heaps.

NLTNew Living Translation

The people who once ate the richest foods

now beg in the streets for anything they can get.

Those who once wore the finest clothes

now search the garbage dumps for food.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The ones who eat delicacies,

they are ruined in the streets;

the ones nurtured in purple

lie on piles of trash.

KJV 1900King James Version

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:

They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.