Lamentations 4:1
How gold has tarnished! Even pure gold has lost its shine! Jewels from the Temple have been scattered on every street corner.
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Isaiah 1:21The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
Jeremiah 52:13He burned down the Lord's Temple, the royal palace, and all the large buildings of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 7:19They will throw away their silver in the streets and treat their gold as if it's something unclean. Their silver and gold won't be able to save them when the day of the Lord's anger comes. Their money won't satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs. In fact this was the problem that caused their sin in the first place.
Mark 13:2“You see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone will be left on top of another. Everything will be torn 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 →