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

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

Young's Literal Translation
Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

Lamentations 4:5 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Embrace dunghills - Lie on straw or rubbish, instead of the costly carpets and sofas on which they formerly stretched themselves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

that die

Deuteronomy 28:54-56 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom...

Isaiah 3:16-26 Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes...

Isaiah 24:6-12 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned...

Isaiah 32:9-14 Rise up, you women that are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech...

Jeremiah 6:2,3 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman...

Amos 6:3-7 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near...

Luke 7:25 But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately...

1 Timothy 5:6 But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

Revelation 18:7-9 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart...

brought

2 Samuel 1:24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold on your apparel.

Proverbs 31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

embrace

Job 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Jeremiah 9:21,22 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without...

Luke 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave to him.

Lamentations 4:5 Parallel Commentaries
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