Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has become dim, the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
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Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a harlot! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 52:13And he burned the house of LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Even every great house, he burned with fire.
Ezekiel 7:19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of LORD. They shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill t
Mark 13:2And Jesus having answered, he said to him, See thou these great buildings? There will be left, no, not a stone upon a stone, that will, no, not be brought down.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:1
This chapter is another single alphabet of Lamentations for the destruction of Jerusalem, like those in the first two chapters. I. The prophet here laments the injuries and indignities done to those to whom respect used to be shown, ver. 1, 2 . II. He laments the direful effects of the famine to which they were reduced by the siege, ver. 3-10 . III. He laments the taking and sacking of Jerusalem and its amazing desolations, ver. 11, 12 . IV. He acknowledges that the sins of their leaders were the cause of all… Read the whole commentary →