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.
how is the gold
2 Kings 25:9,10 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all …
Isaiah 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; …
Isaiah 14:12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how …
Ezekiel 7:19-22 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed…
the stones
Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour …
Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the …
Matthew 24:2 And Jesus said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say …
Mark 13:2 And Jesus answering said to him, See you these great buildings? …
Luke 21:5,6 And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones …
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
sea monsters. or sea calves. the daughters
Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the …
Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they …
Leviticus 26:29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters …
Deuteronomy 28:52-57 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced …
2 Kings 6:26-29 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried …
Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion …
Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh …
Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and …
Luke 23:28,29 But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not …
like
Job 39:13-16 Gave you the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers …
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, …
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
that die
Deuteronomy 28:54-56 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his …
Isaiah 3:16-26 Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, …
Isaiah 24:6-12 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein …
Isaiah 32:9-14 Rise up, you women that are at ease; hear my voice, you careless …
Jeremiah 6:2,3 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman…
Amos 6:3-7 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence …
Luke 7:25 But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? …
1 Timothy 5:6 But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
Revelation 18:7-9 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much …
brought
2 Samuel 1:24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, …
Proverbs 31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household …
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
embrace
Job 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock …
Jeremiah 9:21,22 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, …
Luke 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine …
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of, iniquity of the daughter
Isaiah 1:9,10 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we …
Ezekiel 16:48-50 As I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom your sister has not done, she …
Matthew 11:23,24 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be brought …
Luke 10:12 But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for …
Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, …
the punishment
Lamentations 4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain …
Genesis 19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants …
Daniel 9:12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against …
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning …
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Nazarites
Numbers 6:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man …
Judges 13:5,7 For, see, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall …
Judges 16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come …
Amos 2:11,12 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men …
Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither …
purer
1 Samuel 16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and with of a …
Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall …
Psalm 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our …
Songs 5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the most chief among ten thousand.
Daniel 1:15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and …
their polishing. Gizrathom, rendered by Dr. Blayney, 'their veining,' from gazar, to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, 'Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion.'
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
visage
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Job 30:17-19,30 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest…
Joel 2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall …
Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees …
blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness. Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, 'duskier than the dawn;' shachar signifying 'the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished. they
Lamentations 4:1,2 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the …
Ruth 1:19,20 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, …
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they …
Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than …
their skins
Job 19:20 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with …
Job 33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones …
Psalm 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned …
Psalm 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither …
Psalm 102:3-5,11 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth…
Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
Lord
Lamentations 4:22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; …
Lamentations 2:8,17 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: …
Deuteronomy 32:21-25 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have …
Jeremiah 6:11,12 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding …
Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury shall …
Jeremiah 9:9-11 Shall I not visit them for these things? said the LORD: shall not …
Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the …
Jeremiah 14:15,16 Therefore thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy …
Jeremiah 15:1-4 Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, …
Jeremiah 19:3-11 And say, Hear you the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants …
Jeremiah 23:19,20 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous …
Jeremiah 24:8-10 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely …
Ezekiel 20:47,48 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus …
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed …
Daniel 9:12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against …
Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, …
Luke 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written …
kindled
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, …
Jeremiah 21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, said …
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
the sins
Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they …
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their …
Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one …
Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: …
Jeremiah 23:11-21 For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I …
Ezekiel 22:26-28 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: …
Micah 3:11,12 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach …
Zephaniah 3:3,4 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening …
that
Jeremiah 2:20 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and …
Jeremiah 26:8,9 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all …
Matthew 23:31,33-37 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of …
Luke 11:47-51 Woe to you! for you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your …
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they …
1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have …
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
have wandered
Deuteronomy 28:28,29 The LORD shall smite you with madness, and blindness, and astonishment …
Isaiah 29:10-12 For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and …
Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb …
Isaiah 59:9-11 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake …
Micah 3:6,7 Therefore night shall be to you, that you shall not have a vision; …
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind …
Ephesians 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life …
they have polluted
Numbers 35:33 So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood it defiles …
Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Jeremiah 2:34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: …
so that men could not touch, or, in that they could not but touch
Numbers 19:16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, …
Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing …
depart ye
Numbers 16:26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from …
Numbers 19:16 And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, …
Psalm 6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard …
Psalm 139:19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, …
Micah 2:10 Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, …
2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …
it is unclean. or, ye polluted
Leviticus 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and …
They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
anger. or face hath
Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it …
Leviticus 26:33-39 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …
Deuteronomy 28:25,64,65 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …
Deuteronomy 32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance …
Jeremiah 15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, …
Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the …
he will
Psalm 106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …
they respected
Lamentations 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
2 Kings 25:18-21 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah …
2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their …
Isaiah 9:14-16 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch …
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
our eyes
Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders …
2 Kings 24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land…
Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, …
Isaiah 30:1-7 Woe to the rebellious children, said the LORD, that take counsel, …
Isaiah 31:1-3 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …
Jeremiah 2:18,36 And now what have you to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters …
Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Jeremiah 30:7-10 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even …
Ezekiel 29:6,7,16 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because …
for a. For the Egyptians, who were their pretended allies; but who were neither able nor willing to help them.
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
hunt
Lamentations 3:52 My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
1 Samuel 24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? …
2 Kings 25:4,5 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night …
Job 10:16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show …
Psalm 140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt …
Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, said the LORD, and they shall …
Jeremiah 39:4,5 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, …
Jeremiah 52:7-9 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled…
our end is near
Jeremiah 1:12 Then said the LORD to me, You have well seen: for I will hasten my …
Jeremiah 51:33 For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter …
Ezekiel 7:2-12 Also, you son of man, thus said the Lord GOD to the land of Israel; …
Ezekiel 12:22,23,27 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, …
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. …
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
persecutors
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end …
Isaiah 5:26-28 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss …
Isaiah 30:16,17 But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you …
Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as …
Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against …
Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce …
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the …
the eagles. The eagle, whose wings are of an extraordinary length, darts with amazing rapidity through the voids of heaven. they pursued
Amos 2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong …
Amos 9:1-3 I saw the LORD standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel …
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
breath
Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her …
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed …
Genesis 44:30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the lad …
2 Samuel 18:3 But the people answered, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, …
the anointed
1 Samuel 12:3,5 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …
1 Samuel 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, …
1 Samuel 24:6,10 And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing …
1 Samuel 26:9,16 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth …
2 Samuel 1:14,21 And David said to him, How were you not afraid to stretch forth your …
2 Samuel 19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei …
Psalm 89:20,21 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him…
was taken
Jeremiah 39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah …
Jeremiah 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook …
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare: …
Ezekiel 17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, …
Ezekiel 19:4-8 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they …
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
be glad
Psalm 83:3-12 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted …
Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who …
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Ezekiel 25:6,8 For thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, …
Ezekiel 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she …
Ezekiel 35:11-15 Therefore, as I live, said the Lord GOD, I will even do according …
Obadiah 1:10-16 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, …
the land
Genesis 36:28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man …
the cup
Isaiah 34:1 Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the …
Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …
Jeremiah 25:15-29 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …
Jeremiah 49:12 For thus said the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink …
Ezekiel 25:12-14 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because that Edom has dealt against the house …
Ezekiel 35:3-9 And say to it, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am …
Amos 1:11 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, …
Obadiah 1:1,10 The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We …
Malachi 1:2-4 I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved …
and shalt
2 Chronicles 28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for …
Micah 1:11 Pass you away, you inhabitant of Saphir, having your shame naked: …
Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps …
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
the punishment of thine iniquity. or Thine iniquity
Lamentations 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is …
Isaiah 40:2 Speak you comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare …
Jeremiah 46:27,28 But fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: …
Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the iniquity of Israel …
he will no
Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful …
Isaiah 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, wasting nor destruction …
Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not …
Ezekiel 37:28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when …
he will visit
Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …
Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who …
discover thy sins. or carry thee captive for thy sins
