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Lamentations 4:1-2
EasyEnglish Bible
Lamentations 4:1-2
EasyEnglish Bible
God punishes his people[a]
4 Look! The gold has stopped shining!
Look how the best gold has changed!
The valuable stones from the Holy Place lie at the end of every street!
2 Jerusalem's men were valuable, like the best gold.[b]
Now they lie in the streets, because God has broken them.
They are like common pots that a potter makes.[c]
Footnotes
- 4:1 In this chapter, Jeremiah continues to speak.
- 4:2 Jerusalem's people were valuable to God, as gold is valuable. Perhaps the ‘valuable stones’ from the Holy Place were like Jerusalem's leaders and priests. Certainly the enemy had destroyed and burnt the Holy Place there. They broke the beautiful stones from its walls, and those stones were lying in the street.
- 4:2 People did not think that ordinary pots were valuable.
Lamentations 4:1-2
New International Version
Lamentations 4:1-2
New International Version
4 [a]How the gold has lost its luster,
the fine gold become dull!
The sacred gems are scattered
at every street corner.(A)
2 How the precious children of Zion,(B)
once worth their weight in gold,
are now considered as pots of clay,
the work of a potter’s hands!
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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