Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:2Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
Amos 6:3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
Treasury of Scripture
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
that die
Deuteronomy 28:54-56
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: …
Isaiah 3:16-26
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: …
Isaiah 24:6-12
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left…
brought
2 Samuel 1:24
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Proverbs 31:21
She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
embrace
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Jeremiah 9:21,22
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets…
Luke 15:16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
