Lamentations 4:5 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.”
Lamentations 4:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:5 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 4:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.”
Lamentations 4:5 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.”
Lamentations 4:5 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.”
Lamentations 4:5 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.”
Lamentations 4:5 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“They that did feede delicately, perish in the streetes: they that were brought vp in skarlet, embrace the dongue.”
Lamentations 4:5 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:5 in Context — Lamentations 4
3 Até os chacais dão o peito para amamentar a seus filhotes; [porém] a filha de meu povo se tornou cruel, como os avestruzes no deserto.
4 Por causa da sede a língua da criança de peito se grudou a seu céu da boca; os meninos pedem pão, e ninguém há lhes reparta.
5 Os que comiam das melhores iguarias, [agora] desfalecem nas ruas; os que se criaram em carmesim abraçam o lixo.
6 Pois maior é o castigo da filha de meu povo do que o [do] pecado de Sodoma, Que foi transtornada em um momento, e não assentaram sobre ela companhias.
7 Seus nazireus eram mais alvos que a neve, mais brancos que o leite. Seus corpos eram mais avermelhados que rubis, [e] mais polidos que a safira;
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What Does Lamentations 4:5 Mean?
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