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Lamentations 4:5

New American Standard Bible

5 Those who used to eat delicacies Are made to tremble in the streets; Those who were raised in crimson clothing Embrace garbage heaps.

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American Standard Version

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

Christian Standard Bible

Those who used to eat delicacies are destitute in the streets; those who were reared in purple garments huddle in trash heaps.

English Standard Version

Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.

King James Version

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

New International Version

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.

New King James Version

Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Embrace ash heaps.

New Living Translation

The people who once ate the richest foods now beg in the streets for anything they can get. Those who once wore the finest clothes now search the garbage dumps for food.

World English Bible

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