Lamentations 4:1

The gold has become tarnished; how the purest gold has changed! 1 The holy stones are scattered at the corner of every street. 1

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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.

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2The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in pure gold, 1 but now they are worth no more than clay jars, the work of the potter's hands! 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! 1 She who was full of justice—she was full of righteousness, 1 but now she is full of murderers. 1

Jeremiah 52:13He burned the house of Yahweh, the king's palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; also every important building in the city he burned.

Ezekiel 7:19They will throw their silver into the streets and their gold will be like refuse. Their silver and their gold 1 will not be able to rescue them in the day of Yahweh's rage. Their lives will not be saved, 1 and their hunger will not be satisfied, because their iniquity has become a stumbling block. 1

Mark 13:2He said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another which will not 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 →

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