They that did eat delicacies are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Scarlet. Literally, "yellow "croceis. (Haydock)
Hebrew means purple. Those who have been educated in the most delicate manner, are forced to feed on the most disgusting things, 4 Kings vi. 25., and xviii. 27., and Deuteronomy xxviii. 54.
