How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Lamentations 4:1 - Revised Standard Version How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition HOW THE gold has become dim! How the most pure gold has changed! The hallowed stones [of the temple] 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. Common English Bible Oh, no! Gold is tarnished; even the purest gold is changed. Sacred jewels are scattered on every street corner. Catholic Public Domain Version ALEPH. O how the gold has become dulled, the finest color has been altered, the stones of the sanctuary have been scattered at the head of every street. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed: the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street! |
How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver and bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace, have become dross.
Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and uncover her foundations.
But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.”
And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.”