They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.
They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
- Author
- Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
- Date
- Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC