There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; {seat: or, habitation}

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household {are} clothed with scarlet. {scarlet: or, double garments}

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with {other} delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

{So that} the man {that is} tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. {in...: or, delicately}

For death is come up into our windows, {and} is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, {and} the young men from the streets.

Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing {as} they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: {wanton...: Heb. deceiving with their eyes} {mincing: or, tripping nicely}

I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate {woman}. {comely: or, dwelling at home}

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. {in...: or, delicately}

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. {abundance: or, power}

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: {there is} no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, {and} keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? {hath he} not {sent me} to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? {their own piss: Heb. the water of their feet}

Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.