Lamentations 4:1

[ALEPH-BET] How the gold has become dim, || Changed the best—the pure gold! Stones of the sanctuary are poured out || At the head of all out-places.

Literal Standard Version

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

2The precious sons of Zion, || Who are comparable with fine gold, || How they have been reckoned earthen bottles, || Work of the hands of a potter.

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:21How has a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it [with] judgment, || Righteousness lodges in it—now murderers.

Jeremiah 52:13and he burns the house of YHWH, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem—even every great house he has burned with fire,

Ezekiel 7:19They cast their silver into out-places, || And their gold becomes impurity. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them, || In a day of the wrath of YHWH, || They do not satisfy their soul, || And they do not fill their bowels, || For it has been the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

Mark 13:2And Jesus answering said to him, “See these great buildings? There may not be left a stone on a stone that may 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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