Lamentations 4:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

Young's Literal Translation
Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

King James Bible
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Hebrew
Those who once ate
הָאֹֽכְלִים֙ (hā·’ō·ḵə·lîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

delicacies
לְמַ֣עֲדַנִּ֔ים (lə·ma·‘ă·ḏan·nîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4574: A dainty (food), delight

are destitute
נָשַׁ֖מּוּ (nā·šam·mū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy

in the streets;
בַּחוּצ֑וֹת (ba·ḥū·ṣō·wṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

those brought up
הָאֱמֻנִים֙ (hā·’ĕ·mu·nîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural
Strong's 539: To confirm, support

in
עֲלֵ֣י (‘ă·lê)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

purple
תוֹלָ֔ע (ṯō·w·lā‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8438: The crimson-grub, of the color, from it, cloths dyed therewith

huddle
חִבְּק֖וּ (ḥib·bə·qū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2263: To clasp, embrace

in ash heaps.
אַשְׁפַּתּֽוֹת׃ (’aš·pat·tō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 830: An ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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