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 measure faster than the sins of the priests and prophets (Lamentations 4:13), by which they are led blindly away from God and into His judgments.
Key Word: Devoured, Lamentations 4:11.
Strong Verses: Lamentations 4:9.
CHAPTER IV _The present deplorable sate of the nation is now contrasted_ _with its ancient prosperity_, 1-12; _and the unhappy change ascribed, in a great degree, to the_ _profligacy of the priest...
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 to b...
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...
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 G...
_changed_ The verb in the MT. has not a pure Heb. form. By the change of a diacritic mark Löhr, following Nöldeke, gets the sense _are become hateful_. A somewhat greater change (the omission of a con...
_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")....
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 princes...
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...
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," the splen...
4:1 (d-0) In this chapter the initial Hebrew letter of each verse, consisting of two parts or lines, follows the alphabetical order....
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...
HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM] The three words used for gold, pure gold, and fine gold, in Lamentations 4:1, all stand metaphorically for Jerusalem's most precious possessions, particularly her inhabitan...
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...
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...
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 connectio...
אֵיכָה֙ יוּעַ֣ם זָהָ֔ב יִשְׁנֶ֖א הַ כֶּ֣תֶם ה
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...
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...
_Colour. Hebrew, "gold." Septuagint, "silver;" (Haydock) denoting the patriarchs, (Theodoret) chiefs, (Vatable) or ornaments of the temple. (Calmet) --- It had formerly glittered with gold; now there...
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...
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 sub...
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 think that...
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...
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 of t...
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 wondermen...
_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...
JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
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 cast f...
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...
LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 4 Zion bewaileth her misery, confesseth her sins, LAMENTATIONS 4:1. Miseries of the chief ones; women who killed and dressed their own children, LAMENTATIONS 4:7. The sin of the f...
Lamentations 4:1 gold H2091 dim H6004 (H8714) changed H8132 (H8799) gold H2896 H3800 stones H68 sanctuary...
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...
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....
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 Kings 25:10; 2 Kings 25:9; Ezekiel 7:19; Isaiah 1:21; Isaiah 14:12
The top — Are scattered in the head of every street....