| Geneva Study Bible They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 5. delicately-on dainties. are desolate-or, "perish." in scarlet embrace dunghills-Instead of the scarlet couches on which the grandees were nursed, they must lie on dunghills. embrace-They who once shrank sensitively from any soil, gladly cling close to heaps of filth as their only resting-place. Compare "embrace the rock" (Job 24:8). Vau. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 4:1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its outward appearance may be dimmed, but its real value can never be changed. The horrors of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem are again described. Beholding the sad consequences of sin in the church of old, let us seriously consider to what the same causes may justly bring down the church now. But, Lord, though we have gone from thee in rebellion, yet turn to us, and turn our hearts to thee, that we may fear thy name. Come to us, bless us with awakening, converting, renewing, confirming grace. | 
