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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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets,.... That were brought up in the king's palace, or in the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
They that were brought up in scarlet - literally, “those that were carried upon scarlet;” young children in arms and of…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
Embrace dunghills - Lie on straw or rubbish, instead of the costly carpets and sofas on which they formerly stretched…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Lamentations 4:1-12
The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
delicately luxuriously. Children are still the subject, and not, as has been suggested, rich persons. In the latter case…
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