Lamentations 4:5 Cross References

Lamentations 4:5

5: The people who once ate only the richest foods now beg in the streets for anything they can get. Those who once lived in palaces now search the garbage pits for food.

Amos 6:3

  1. You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
  2. How terrible it will be for you who sprawl on ivory beds surrounded with luxury, eating the meat of tender lambs and choice calves.
  3. You sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and you fancy yourselves to be great musicians, as King David was.
  4. You drink wine by the bowlful, and you perfume yourselves with exotic fragrances, caring nothing at all that your nation is going to ruin.
  5. Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly, all your revelry will end.

Luke 15:16

  1. The boy became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.

Luke 16:19

  1. Jesus said, "There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed and who lived each day in luxury.

2 Samuel 1:24

  1. O women of Israel, weep for Saul, for he dressed you in fine clothing and gold ornaments.

Isaiah 24:6

  1. Therefore, a curse consumes the earth and its people. They are left desolate, destroyed by fire. Few will be left alive.
  2. All the joys of life will be gone. The grape harvest will fail, and there will be no wine. The merrymakers will sigh and mourn.
  3. The clash of tambourines will be stilled; the happy cries of celebration will be heard no more. The melodious chords of the harp will be silent.
  4. Gone are the joys of wine and song; strong drink now turns bitter in the mouth.
  5. The city writhes in chaos; every home is locked to keep out looters.

1 Timothy 5:6

  1. But the widow who lives only for pleasure is spiritually dead.

Proverbs 31:21

  1. She has no fear of winter for her household because all of them have warm clothes.

Luke 7:25

  1. Or were you expecting to see a man dressed in expensive clothes? No, people who wear beautiful clothes and live in luxury are found in palaces, not in the wilderness.

Revelation 18:7

  1. She has lived in luxury and pleasure, so match it now with torments and sorrows. She boasts, 'I am queen on my throne. I am no helpless widow. I will not experience sorrow.'
  2. Therefore, the sorrows of death and mourning and famine will overtake her in a single day. She will be utterly consumed by fire, for the Lord God who judges her is mighty."
  3. And the rulers of the world who took part in her immoral acts and enjoyed her great luxury will mourn for her as they see the smoke rising from her charred remains.

Deuteronomy 28:54

  1. The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children.
  2. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring--the flesh of one of his own children--because he has nothing else to eat during the siege that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
  3. The most tender and delicate woman among you--so delicate she would not so much as touch her feet to the ground--will be cruel to the husband she loves and to her own son or daughter.

Jeremiah 9:21

  1. For death has crept in through our windows and has entered our mansions. It has killed off the flower of our youth: Children no longer play in the streets, and young men no longer gather in the squares.
  2. And the LORD says, "Bodies will be scattered across the fields like dung, or like bundles of grain after the harvest. No one will be left to bury them."

Isaiah 32:9

  1. Listen, you women who lie around in lazy ease. Listen to me, and I will tell you of your reward.
  2. In a short time--in just a little more than a year--you careless ones will suddenly begin to care. For your fruit crop will fail, and the harvest will never take place.
  3. Tremble, you women of ease; throw off your unconcern. Strip off your pretty clothes, and wear sackcloth in your grief.
  4. Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms that will soon be gone, and for those fruitful vines of other years.
  5. For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy cities will be gone.

Isaiah 3:16

  1. Next the LORD will judge the women of Jerusalem, who walk around with their noses in the air, with tinkling ornaments on their ankles. Their eyes rove among the crowds, flirting with the men.
  2. The Lord will send a plague of scabs to ornament their heads. Yes, the LORD will make them bald for all to see!
  3. The Lord will strip away their artful beauty--their ornaments, headbands, and crescent necklaces;
  4. their earrings, bracelets, and veils of shimmering gauze.
  5. Gone will be their scarves, ankle chains, sashes, perfumes, and charms;

Jeremiah 6:2

  1. O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter--but I will destroy you!
  2. Enemy shepherds will surround you. They will set up camp around the city and divide your pastures for their flocks.

Job 24:8

  1. They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home.
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