Lamentations 4:1

ALEPHHow the gold has become dim! How the most pure gold has changed!The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.BET

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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, comparable to fine gold,How they are regarded as clay jars, the work of the hands of the potter!GIMEL

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a prostitute!She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her,but now murderers.

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

Ezekiel 7:19They shall cast their silver in 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 the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Mark 13:2And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which 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 →

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