George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Lamentations 4:2
Best. Hebrew, "gold of Phaz," in Colchis, Genesis ii. 11. (Calmet) --- In Solomon's reign, they powdered their hair with gold dust. (Josephus, Antiquities viii. 7.) --- Vessels. Isaias xxx. 14.
Best. Hebrew, "gold of Phaz," in Colchis, Genesis ii. 11. (Calmet) --- In Solomon's reign, they powdered their hair with gold dust. (Josephus, Antiquities viii. 7.) --- Vessels. Isaias xxx. 14.
Verse Lamentations 4:2. _THE PRECIOUS SONS OF ZION_] The Jewish priests and Jewish believers. _COMPARABLE TO FINE GOLD_] Who were of the _pure standard_ of holiness; holy, because God who called them...
THE PRECIOUS SONS OF ZION - The whole nation was consecrated to God, and formed “a kingdom of priests” Exodus 19:6 : in this respect, a type of the Christian Church 1 Peter 2:5. COMPARABLE TO FINE GOL...
CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed: How is the gold become dim...
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 4:1, and...
FINE GOLD. pure gold. See note above. AS EARTHEN PITCHERS. The comparison is both in the material and in the workmanship. Compare Jeremiah 18:1; Jeremiah 19:1....
_work of the hands of the potter_ as helpless as the earth which is moulded by him....
_gold most pure gold fine gold_ used metaphorically for the citizens, the choicest of whom are also called _the stones of the sanctuary_. Cp. Zechariah 9:16 ("stones of a crown")....
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE A RUINED KINGDOM Lamentations 4:1-22 The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s 1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines instea...
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! THE PRECIOUS SONS OF ZION, COMPARABLE TO FINE GOLD - (; ). HOW ARE...
ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom. In...
EARTHEN PITCHERS, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF THE POTTER] The contrast is not merely one of the materials, gold and clay, but of workmanship (Jeremiah 18:1; Jeremiah 19:1)....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 4 JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK. V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has changed! The stones of the *temple...
Some people think that the ‘young men’ were the priests of the *temple. The fine gold of God’s house (see 1 Kings 6:22) and its special stone was dirty. It was dirty with smoke after the fire. Now th...
THE PRECIOUS SONS OF ZION... — The adjective is applied not to a special class, priests, nobles, or the like, but to all the _“_sons of Zion” in their ideal character as a “kingdom of priests” (Exodus...
בְּנֵ֤י צִיֹּון֙ הַ יְקָרִ֔ים הַ מְסֻלָּאִ֖ים...
CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1 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 twenty-two...
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 s...
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen (b) pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! (b) Which are of small value and have no honour....
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. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they e...
The Prophet comes now to the people, though he does not include the whole people, but brings forward those who were renowned, and excelled in honor and dignity. He then says, that they were become lik...
Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
THE PRECIOUS SONS OF ZION, COMPARABLE TO FINE GOLD,.... This explains what is meant in Lamentations 4:1; by gold, fine gold, and stones of the sanctuary; not Josiah and his sons, as some Jewish interp...
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Ver. 2. The precious _a_ sons of Zion.] Those porphyrogeniti, as th...
_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 fr...
The precious sons of Zion, all its inhabitants, noble by virtue of the Lord's selection, COMPARABLE TO FINE GOLD, HOW ARE THEY ESTEEMED AS EARTHEN PITCHERS, of little or no value, THE WORK OF THE HAND...
JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its...
Either the nobles and great men, or the priests, or the good men amongst the Jews, that for their intrinsic worth and value may be compared to gold, are looked upon no better than earthen vessels, the...
Lamentations 4:2 precious H3368 sons H1121 Zion H6726 Valuable H5537 (H8794) gold H6337 regarded H2803 (H8738
THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 4:1). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (precious) sto...
CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah. Sins of the leaders acknowledged. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the mea...
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 and...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:2 EARTHEN POTS. To be shattered. ⇐ ⇔
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; something...
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
The fourth lamentation: How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Timothy 2:20; Isaiah 30:14; Isaiah 51:18;...
Earthen pitchers — The nobles, the priests, and the good men, are looked upon no better than earthen vessels, the workmanship of an ordinary potter....