Lamentations 4:5
"They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."
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- Luke 16:19
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Amos 6:3
"Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 31:21
"She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 24:6
"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."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 28:54
"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:"
Read in chapter → - Revelation 18:7
"How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow."
Read in chapter → - 1 Timothy 5:6
"But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."
Read in chapter → - Luke 7:25
"But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts."
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