Lamentations 4:5

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

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

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.