Lamentations 4:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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... fine gold. Figure of speech Anabasis, which is lost in Authorized Version rendering, which should be "gold... fine gold... pure gold".

Lamentations 4:1

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.