Lamentations 4:5
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 4
“They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.”Lamentations 4:5
What Does Lamentations 4:5 Mean?
Lamentations 4:5 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 4, verse 5 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 4:5 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Luke 16:19“There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:”Job 24:8“They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.”Proverbs 31:21“She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.”Amos 6:3“Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;”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.”Deuteronomy 28:54“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, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:”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.”Psalms 44:25“For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.”Isaiah 24:6“Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.”Isaiah 47:1“Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.”Luke 7:25“But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.”1 Timothy 5:6“But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”Revelation 18:3“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”Revelation 18:7“How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.”2 Kings 18:27“But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?”Isaiah 3:16“Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:”Isaiah 32:9“Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.”Jeremiah 6:2“I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.”Jeremiah 9:21“For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.”Lamentations 2:10“The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.”
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