Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
They that were brought up in scarlet - literally, "those that were carried upon scarlet;" young children in arms and of the highest birth now lie on the dirt-heaps of the city.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Lamentations 4:5:
1 Samuel 15:32
Isaiah 51:20
Joel 1:8
Micah 7:5-6
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