Lamentations 4:1
How has the gold become dim! How is the finest gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the top of every street.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
How the gold has grown dim, the fine gold has changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
How is the gold{H2091} become dim!{H6004} [how] is the most{H2896} pure gold{H3800} changed!{H8132} The stones{H68} of the sanctuary{H6944} are poured out{H8210} at the head{H7218} of every street.{H2351}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
How is the gold{H2091} become dim{H6004}{(H8714)}! how is the most{H2896} fine gold{H3800} changed{H8132}{(H8799)}! the stones{H68} of the sanctuary{H6944} are poured out{H8210}{(H8691)} in the top{H7218} of every street{H2351}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how is the golde become so dymme? How is the goodly coloure of it so sore chaunged? and the stones of ye Sanctuary thus scatred in the corner of euery strete?
Geneva Bible (1560)
How is the golde become so dimme? the most fine golde is changed, and the stones of the Sanctuarie are scattered in the corner of euery streete.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
O howe is the golde become so dimme? howe is the most fine golde so sore chaunged? and the stones of the sanctuarie thus scattered in the corner of euery streete?
Authorized King James Version (1611)
¶ 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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
How is the gold become dim, Changed the best -- the pure gold? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary At the head of all out-places.
American Standard Version (1901)
How is the gold become dim! `how' is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
American Standard Version (1901)
How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
World English Bible (2000)
How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
א(Alef)The Prophet Speaks: Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.
Referenced Verses
- Ezek 7:19-22 : 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity. 20 As for the beauty of his ornaments, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein; therefore, have I set it far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 I will also turn my face from them, and they shall pollute my secret place; for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it.
- Isa 1:21 : 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
- Lam 2:19 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
- 2 Kgs 25:9-9 : 9 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burned with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
- Isa 14:12 : 12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations!
- Jer 52:13 : 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire:
- Matt 24:2 : 2 And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone will be left here upon another that will not be thrown down.
- Mark 13:2 : 2 And Jesus, answering, said to him, See these great buildings? There shall not be one stone left upon another, which shall not be thrown down.
- Luke 21:5-6 : 5 And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts, he said, 6 As for these things which you behold, the days will come when there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they regarded as clay pots, the work of the hands of the potter!
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21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:
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19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.
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6 And He has violently taken away His tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: He has destroyed His places of the assembly: the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has abhorred His sanctuary, He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8 The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
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10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
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1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger, and cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger!
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17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
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4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.
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2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are in mourning on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
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25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your tin:
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18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to Me like dross: all of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
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1 O God, the heathen have entered into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.