Lamentations 4:1

Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

In Context

2Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that were clothed with the best gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the potter's hands?

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:21How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

Jeremiah 52:13And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Ezekiel 7:19Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Mark 13:2And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest thou all these great buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that 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 →

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