Verse 1

How the gold has grown dim, the fine gold has changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

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  • Ezek 7:19-22 : 19 They will throw their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has caused their stumbling into sin. 20 They took pride in the beauty of their jewelry and made it into images of their detestable idols. Therefore, I will make it a thing of uncleanness for them. 21 I will give it into the hands of foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it. 22 I will turn my face away from them, and they will desecrate my treasured place. Violent men will enter it and desecrate it.
  • Isa 1:21 : 21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness once dwelt in her, but now murderers.
  • Lam 2:19 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the start of the night watches; pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your little children who faint from hunger at every street corner.
  • 2 Kgs 25:9-9 : 9 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every large house was burned down. 10 The entire Chaldean army, under the captain of the guard, tore down the walls of Jerusalem that surrounded the city.
  • Isa 14:12 : 12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, you who laid low the nations.
  • Jer 52:13 : 13 He set fire to the house of the LORD, the royal palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and every significant building in the city.
  • Matt 24:2 : 2 Jesus said to them, 'Do you see all these things? Truly, I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.'
  • Mark 13:2 : 2 Jesus replied, 'Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.'
  • Luke 21:5-6 : 5 Some people were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, and he said, 6 ‘As for these things you see, days are coming when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.’