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Lamentations 4:5

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

Lamentations 4:5 WEB

Lamentations 4:5 in the King James Version

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

Context

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

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

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

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