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Lamentations 4:5

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 5 Those who used to eat delicacies lie famished* in the streets.+
  
  Those who were brought up wearing scarlet+ have embraced ash heaps.

Lamentations 4:5

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 5 The very ones that were eating pleasant things have been struck with astonishment in the streets.+
  The very ones that were being reared in scarlet+ have had to embrace ash heaps.+

Lamentations 4:5

The Bible in Living English
- 5 * Those who had been eating with dainties were starving about the streets.
  Those who had been laid on scarlet hugged rubbish on the dumps.

Lamentations 4:5

American Standard Version
- 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Lamentations 4:5

The Emphasized Bible
- 5 They who used to eat delicacies Are deserted in the streets,—They who used to be carried on crimson Have embraced heaps of refuse.

Lamentations 4:5

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