Verse Comparison: Lamentations 4:5
American Standard Version
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Amplified® Bible
Those who feasted on dainties are perishing in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie cleaving to refuse {and} ash heaps.
Contemporary English Version
All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on trash heaps.
Darby English Version
They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.
Good News Bible
People who once ate the finest foods die starving in the streets; those raised in luxury are pawing through garbage for food.
King James Version
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
New American Standard Bible
Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those reared in purple Embrace ash pits.
New International Version
Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets.
Those nurtured in purple
now lie on ash heaps.
New King James Version
Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
Embrace ash heaps.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Those who ate delicacies find themselves desolate in the streets; Those reared in purple Embrace ash pits.
Revised Standard Version
Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash heaps.
Young's Literal Translation
Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.