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.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
How is the gold become dim - The prophet contrasts, in various affecting instances, the wretched circumstances of the Jewish nation, with the flourishing state of their affairs in former times. Here…
The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold, as the most fine gold, so…
gold most pure gold fine gold used metaphorically for the citizens, the choicest of whom are also called the stones of the sanctuary. Cp. Zec 9:16 ("stones of a crown").
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