Lamentations 4:1
How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
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Isaiah 1:21The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
Jeremiah 52:13And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:
Ezekiel 7:19They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.
Mark 13:2And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned.
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 →