Lamentations 4:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:3-7 : 3 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. 7 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.
  • Luke 7:25 : 25 But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
  • Luke 15:16 : 16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
  • 2 Sam 1:24 : 24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
  • Job 24:8 : 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
  • Prov 31:21 : 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
  • Isa 3:16-26 : 16 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; 17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald." 18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, 19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, 20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, 21 the signet rings, the nose rings, 22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, 23 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls. 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. 25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. 26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
  • Isa 24:6-9 : 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. 12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! 10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist. 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. 14 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
  • Jer 6:2-3 : 2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off. 3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."
  • Jer 9:21-22 : 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].
  • Rev 18:7-9 : 7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.' 8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong. 9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
  • Deut 28:54-56 : 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

    4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

  • Lam 4:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

    9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

    10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    73%

    5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

  • Lam 4:6
    73%

    6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.

  • Amos 6:4
    72%

    4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

  • Job 24:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

    11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

  • Lam 2:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

    12 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

  • Job 5:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

    5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Isa 5:17
    71%

    17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

  • Lam 4:14
    71%

    14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.

  • Job 30:3
    71%

    3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • Jer 16:4
    71%

    4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

  • Isa 51:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

    20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.

  • Lam 1:11
    70%

    11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

  • Isa 3:5
    70%

    5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

  • Mic 6:14
    69%

    14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

  • Ezek 16:5
    69%

    5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.

  • Jer 4:30
    69%

    30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.

  • Ps 53:4
    69%

    4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

  • Amos 5:11
    69%

    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Nah 3:10
    69%

    10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Ezek 4:17
    69%

    17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • Nah 2:10
    69%

    10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

  • Amos 2:7
    69%

    7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Amos 8:4
    69%

    4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Amos 6:7
    69%

    7 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

    5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

  • Isa 24:4
    69%

    4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

  • Prov 4:17
    69%

    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Lam 5:11
    69%

    11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

  • Isa 32:12
    69%

    12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  • Isa 28:8
    69%

    8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

  • Job 15:28
    68%

    28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • Hos 4:10
    68%

    10 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

  • Ezek 7:19
    68%

    19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Ps 14:4
    68%

    4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

  • Hos 4:8
    68%

    8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Prov 13:23
    68%

    23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Jer 6:26
    68%

    26 Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.

  • Jer 5:28
    68%

    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Isa 1:7
    68%

    7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.