Lamentations 4:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stones of the sanctuary - Or, the hallowed stones, literally stones of holiness, a metaphor for the people themselves. The actual stones of the temple would not be thus widely thrown about as...
Lamentations 4:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

How is the (a) gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. (a) By the gold he means the princes, as by the stones he...
Lamentations 4:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4. The Fourth Lament. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3 , and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:...
Lamentations 4:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

This chapter, like Lamentations 1 and Lamentations 2 , is an acrostic: the twenty-two verses commencing successively with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. gold... most fine gold......
Lamentations 4:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here Jeremiah, following the order of the alphabet the fourth time, (206) deplores the ruin of the city, and the destruction of the priesthood and of the kingdom. For they are mistaken who thi...
Lamentations 4:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. How is the gold become dim - The prophet contrasts, in various...
Lamentations 4:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

How is the gold become dim! &c.— "How is the glory of the temple obscured! The sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold, now lies in the ruins." Some think that the prophet here alludes to the p...
Lamentations 4:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. ['Aleph (')] How is the gold become dim - "the gold,"...
Lamentations 4:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

How is the gold become dim ] The three words used for gold, pure gold, and fine gold, in Lamentations 4:1-2 , all stand metaphorically for Jerusalem's most precious possessions, particularly her in...
Lamentations 4:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

IV. (1) How is the gold... — The chapter, considered as a distinct poem, reproduces in its general character that of Lamentations 1:2 , differing from them, however, in tracing more fully the c...
Lamentations 4:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1-12 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of t...
Lamentations 4:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the...
Lamentations 4:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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. CONTENTS. The fallen and sorrowful state of Zion is made the su...
Lamentations 4:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How is the gold become dim !.... Or "covered" b; or hid with rust, dust, or dirt; so that it can scarcely be discerned: [how] is the most fine gold changed ! this may be literally true of the gold...
Lamentations 4:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 1. How is the gold become dim.? ] How by way of wonderm...
Lamentations 4:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How is the gold become dim “How is the glory of the temple obscured! The sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold, ( 2 Chronicles 3:8 ,) now lies in ruins; and the stones of it are not distinguished...
Lamentations 4:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Desolate Condition of Jerusalem; Effects of Famine in Jerusalem; Destruction of Jerusalem. B. C. 588....
Lamentations 4:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 4 Zion bewaileth her misery, confesseth her sins, Lamentations 4:1-6 . Miseries of the chief ones; women who killed and dressed their own children, Lamentations 4:7-12 ....
Lamentations 4:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sad Condition Of The People Of Jerusalem Due To The Anger Of YHWH ( Lamentations 4:1-11 ). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (pre...
Lamentations 4:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (א) Lamentations 4:1 . How is the gold dimmed. Not a mere diminution of its brightness, but a tarnishing which lowered the estimate of the ore. The most pure gold changed;...
Lamentations 4:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 . How is the gold, זהב zahab, so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now become dim. Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers...
Lamentations 4:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM ; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT . EDOM 'S TRIUMPHING . EXPOSITION Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim!… the stones of the sanctuary, etc. "Alas f...
Lamentations 4:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! losing its splendor and color. The stones of the Sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street, or, "The hallowed stones are cas...
Lamentations 4:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 25:10 ; 2 Kings 25:9 ; Ezekiel 7:19-22 ; Isaiah 1:21 ; Isaiah 14:12 ; Jeremiah 52:13 ; Lamentations 2:19 ; Luke 21:5 ; Luke 21:6 ; Mark 13:2 ; Matthew 24:2
Lamentations 4:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The top — Are scattered in the head of every street.

Lamentations 4:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 4:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 4:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes