Psalmory
Berean Standard Bible

Lamentations 4:5

“Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.”
Lamentations 4:5 verse artwork: Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson…
Read Lamentations 4Share this verse

In context

3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

4The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

6The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

7Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

Popular verses

John 3:16Psalm 23:1Philippians 4:13Jeremiah 29:11Romans 8:28Proverbs 3:5Isaiah 41:10Joshua 1:9Matthew 11:28Psalm 46:11 Corinthians 13:4Romans 12:2

Berean Standard Bible · A modern, readable English translation. Public domain (CC0).