Lamentations 4:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

They that were wont to fare delicatelye perishe in the streetes: they that afore were brought vp in purple, make nowe muche of doung.

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  • Amos 6:3-7 : 3 Ye that put farre away the euyll day, and approche to the seate of iniquitie. 4 They lye vpon beddes of yuorie, and stretche them selues vpon their couches, and eate the lambes out of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall. 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid. 6 They drinke wine in bowles, and annoynt them selues with chiefe ointmentes: but no man is sorie for the affliction of Ioseph. 7 Therfore nowe shall they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorowe of them that stretched them selues is at hande.
  • Luke 7:25 : 25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft rayment? Beholde, they which are gorgeously appareled, & lyue delicately, are in kynges courtes.
  • Luke 15:16 : 16 And he woulde fayne haue fylled his belly with the coddes that the swyne dyd eate: and no man gaue vnto hym.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 Ther was a certaine riche man, whiche was clothed in purple & fine whyte, and fared very deliciously euery day.
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she that liueth in pleasure, is dead beyng alyue.
  • 2 Sam 1:24 : 24 Ye daughters of Israel weepe ouer Saul, which clothed you in scarlet with pleasures, and hanged ornamentes of golde vpon your apparell.
  • Job 24:8 : 8 They are wet with the showres of the mountaynes, and embrace the rocke for want of a couering.
  • Prov 31:21 : 21 She feareth not that the colde of wynter shall hurt her housholde, for all her housholde folkes are clothed with scarlet.
  • Isa 3:16-26 : 16 Moreouer the Lord hath said, seing the daughters of Sion are waxen proude, & walke with stretched foorth neckes, and wanton lokes, goyng and trippyng nicely, and tinckelyng with their feete: 17 Therfore shall the Lorde shaue the heades of the daughters of Sion, and shall discouer their filthinesse. 18 In that day shall the Lord take away the gorgiousnesse of the attire about their feete, & the caules, and the rounde tires after the fashion of the moone. 19 The sweete perfumes, and the bracelettes, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnettes, and the sloppes, and the head bandes, and the tablettes, and the earynges, 21 And rynges, and nose iewels: 22 The costly apparell, and the vayles, and the wimples, & the crispyng pinnes, 23 And the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoodes, and the lawnes. 24 And in steade of good smell there shalbe stincke, and in steade of their girdle a rent, and for well set heere there shalbe baldnesse, in steade of a stomacher a sacke cloth, & sunne burnyng for beautie. 25 Thy men shal perishe with the sword, and thy valiaunt souldiours in the battayle O Hierusalem. 26 And her gates shall mourne and bewayle: and she deyng desolate, shall syt vpon the grounde.
  • Isa 24:6-9 : 6 Therfore hath the curse consumed the earth, and they that dwell therin are fallen into trespasse: Wherfore the inhabitours of the earth are perished with drought, and fewe men are left behinde. 7 The wine fayleth, the vine hath no myght, all they that haue ben mery of heart are come to mournyng. 8 The myrth of tabrettes is layde downe, the noyse of such as haue made mery is ceassed, the ioy at the harpe is at an ende. 9 They shall drynke no more wine with mirth, strong drynke shalbe bytter to them that drinke it. 10 The citie of vanitie is broken downe, euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in. 11 In the streetes is there a crying because of wine, all cheare is vanished away, the myrth of the lande is gone. 12 In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Up ye riche and idle women, hearken vnto my voyce, ye carelesse daughters marke my wordes. 10 Many yeres and dayes shall ye be brought in feare O ye carelesse women: for the vintage shall fayle, and the haruest shall not come. 11 Be abashed you that lyue in aboundaunce, tremble you that lyue carelesse, cast of your rayment, make your selues bare, and put sackcloth about you. 12 For as the infantes weepe when their mothers teates are dryed vp: so shall you weepe for your faire fieldes and fruitfull vineyardes. 13 My peoples fielde shall bryng thornes and thistles: and so shall it be in euery house of voluptuousnesse, and in euery citie that reioyceth. 14 The palaces also shalbe broke, and the greatly occupied cities desolate: The towres and bulwarkes shall become dennes for euermore, where wylde asses take their pleasure, and sheepe their pasture.
  • Jer 6:2-3 : 2 I wyll liken the daughter Sion to a faire and tender woman, and to her shall come the shepheardes with their flockes. 3 Their tentes shall they pitche rounde about her, and euery one shall feede in his place.
  • Jer 9:21-22 : 21 Namely thus Death is climing vp in at our windowes, he is come into our houses, to destroy the chylde before the doore, and the young man in the streete. 22 But tell thou playnely, thus saith the Lord: The dead bodyes of men shall lye vpon the ground as the dunge vpon the fielde, and as the handfull after the mower, and there shalbe no man to take them vp.
  • Rev 18:7-9 : 7 And as much as she glorified her selfe & lyued wantonly, so much powre ye in for her of punishement & sorowe: for she said in her heart, I sit being a queene, and am no wydowe, and shall see no sorowe. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and sorowe, and hunger, and she shalbe brent with fire: for strong is the Lorde whiche shall iudge her. 9 And they shal bewayl her, & the kinges of the earth shall lament for her, which haue committed fornication with her, & haue lyued wantonly with her, when they shal see the smoke of her burnyng.
  • Deut 28:54-56 : 54 So that it shall greeue the man (that is tender and exceeding delicate among you) to loke on his brother, and vpon his wyfe that lieth in his bosome, and on the remnaunt of his chyldren which he hath yet left, 55 For feare of geuyng vnto any of them of the fleshe of his chyldren, whom he shall eate: because he hath nothyng left hym in that straitnesse and siege, wherwith thine enemie shall besiege thee in all thy cities. 56 Yea, and the woman that is so tender and delicate, that she dare not aduenture to set the sole of her foote vpon the grounde, for softnesse and tendernesse, shalbe greeued to loke on her husbande that lieth in her bosome, & on her sonne, and on her daughter,

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