The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;
The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;
To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;
Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.
The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
But what did you go out to see? a man in soft clothing? See now, those who have beautiful clothing and delicate food are in kings' houses.
Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;
And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.
Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!
And the armies which are in heaven went after him on white horses, clothed in delicate linen, white and clean.
And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.
His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.
His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.
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