Lamentations 4:1
How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!
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Isaiah 1:21How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 52:13and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great [man's] house he burned with fire.
Ezekiel 7:19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an impurity: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their belly; for it hath been the stumbling-block of their iniquity.
Mark 13:2And Jesus answering said to him, Seest thou these great buildings? not a stone shall be left upon a stone, which shall not be thrown 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 →