5Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets;those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.
The famine has wiped out all class differences. The rich—people who once ate good food and whose babies were wrapped in luxurious blankets—now search for food in the streets and ash heaps, along with the poor.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.