Lamentations 4:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 Those who feasted on delicacies
are abandoned in the streets;
Those who reclined on crimson[a]
now embrace dung heaps.(A)
6 The punishment of the daughter of my people
surpassed the penalty of Sodom,
Which was overthrown in an instant
with no hand laid on it.(B)
7 Her princes were brighter than snow,
whiter than milk,
Their bodies more ruddy than coral,
their beauty like the sapphire.
Footnotes
- 4:5 Crimson: a sign of luxury. Tyrian purple, a red-purple or blue-purple dye produced from shellfish, was very expensive and the only colorfast dye in the ancient Near East. Thus purple or crimson cloth was available only to the wealthy.
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