Lamentations 4:5
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in purple huddle in ash heaps.
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:2
Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

Amos 6:3
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

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that die

Deuteronomy 28:54-56
The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived, . . .

Isaiah 3:16-26
The LORD says, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty--walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles-- . . .

Isaiah 24:6-12
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth's dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive. . . .

Isaiah 32:9-14
Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters. . . .

Jeremiah 6:2, 3
Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion. . . .

Amos 6:3-7
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence. . . .

Luke 7:25
If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.

1 Timothy 5:6
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

Revelation 18:7-9
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, 'I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.' . . .

brought

2 Samuel 1:24
O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.

Proverbs 31:21
When it snows, she is not afraid for her household; for they are all clothed in scarlet.

Luke 16:19
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

embrace

Job 24:8
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Jeremiah 9:21, 22
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares. . . .

Luke 15:16
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

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