Lamentations 4:1
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! The hallowed stones are cast forth at the head of every street.
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Isaiah 1:21How is the faithful city become a harlot, She that was full of equity! Once justice dwelt in her, but now murderers!
Jeremiah 52:13And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses at Jerusalem, all the great houses, burned he with fire.
Ezekiel 7:19Their silver shall they cast into the streets, And their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of Jehovah; Their hunger shall not be satisfied, Nor their body filled with it; For it was the stumbling-block of their iniquity.
Mark 13:2And Jesus said to him, Seest thou these great buildings? There will not be left one stone upon another, that will 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 →