Cross references
Lamentations 4:5
Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets;
those brought up in crimson
huddle in ash heaps.
Lamentations 4:5 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 16:19 (5 votes) and Proverbs 31:21 (4 votes). 25 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 41 to Revelation 18.
Which verses does Lamentations 4:5 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Luke 16:195 votes
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
- Proverbs 31:214 votes
When it snows, she has no fear for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.
- Amos 6:3–74 votes
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence. You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall. …
- Luke 15:164 votes
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
- Deuteronomy 28:54–563 votes
The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived, refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates. …
- 2 Samuel 1:243 votes
O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.
- Isaiah 24:6–123 votes
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive. The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. …
- Luke 7:253 votes
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
- 1 Timothy 5:63 votes
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
- Revelation 18:7–93 votes
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.” …
- Isaiah 3:16–262 votes
- Isaiah 32:9–142 votes
- Jeremiah 6:2–32 votes
- Jeremiah 9:21–222 votes
- Job 24:81 vote
Which verses point to Lamentations 4:5?
The 10 strongest of 25.