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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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHow 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.
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
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.
How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
- Author
- Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
- Date
- Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC