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Lamentations 4:1 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 4 · verse 1
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.Lamentations 4:1 · King James Version
Lamentations 4:1 in context
1How 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.
2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sanctuaryqôdesha sacred place or thingH6944 →
- changedshânâʼto alterH8132 →
- stonesʼebena stoneH68 →
- goldzâhâbgold, figuratively, something gold-colored , as oil, a clear skyH2091 →
- goldkethemproperly, something carved outH3800 →
- dimʻâmamto associateH6004 →
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The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12