New International Version (NIV)
5Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple
now lie on ash heaps.
Lamentations 4:5
Lamentations 4:5 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.
New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020)
5Those who used to eat delicacies
Are made to tremble in the streets;
Those who were raised in crimson clothing
Embrace garbage heaps.
Amplified Bible (AMP)
5Those who feasted on delicacies
Are perishing in the streets;
Those reared in purple [as nobles]
Embrace ash heaps.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
5Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets;
those brought up in crimson
huddle in ash heaps.
American Standard Version (ASV)
5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:
They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Geneva Bible (GNV)
5They that did feede delicately, perish in the streetes: they that were brought vp in skarlet, embrace the dongue.
World English Bible, American English Edition, without Strong's Numbers (WEBUS)
5Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)
5Those who once ate fine food
are dying in the streets.
Those who wore royal clothes
are now lying on piles of trash.
EasyEnglish Bible 2024 (EASY)
5People who were rich and who ate the best food
now die in the streets with nothing to eat.
Rich people who wore expensive clothes
now die among the rubbish.
Literal Standard Version (LSV)
5Those eating of delicacies have been desolate in out-places, || Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.