Lamentations 4:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Lamentations 4:5 —

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Cross-References

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Luke 15:16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Amos 6:3-7
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; …
Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
2 Samuel 1:24
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
1 Timothy 5:6
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Topics

Canaan Drought Famine Hunger

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold, as the most fine gold, so rich and splendid, the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth, has become dim, and is changed, has lost its lustre, lost its value, is not what it was; it has become dross. Alas! what an a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. delicately--on dainties. are desolate--or, “perish.” in scarlet embrace dunghills--Instead of the scarlet couches on which the grandees were nursed, they must lie on dunghills. embrace--They who once shrank sensitively from any soil, gladly cling close to heaps of filth as their only resting-place. Compare “embrace the rock” (Job 24:8). Vau.