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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Lamentations 4

Chapter 4

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 Isaiah 1:21 14:12 Ezekiel 7:19-22

the stones

2:19 Jeremiah 52:13 Matthew 24:2 Mark 13:2 Luke 21:5,6

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

sons

Isaiah 51:18 Zechariah 9:13

how

2:21 5:12 Isaiah 30:14 Jeremiah 19:11 22:28 Romans 9:21-23 2 Corinthians 4:7 2 Timothy 2:20

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 daughter.

2:20 4:10 Leviticus 26:29 Deuteronomy 28:52-57 2 Kings 6:26-29 Isaiah 49:15 Jeremiah 19:9 Ezekiel 5:10 Luke 23:28,29

like

Job 39:13-16 Romans 1:31

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.

tongue

Psalms 22:15 137:6

the young

1:11 2:11,12 Deuteronomy 32:24 Matthew 7:9-11

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

that did

Deuteronomy 28:54-56 Isaiah 3:16-26 24:6-12 32:9-14 Jeremiah 6:2,3 Amos 6:3-7 Luke 7:25 1 Timothy 5:6 Revelation 18:7-9

brought

2 Samuel 1:24 Proverbs 31:21 Luke 16:19

embrace

Job 24:8 Jeremiah 9:21,22 Luke 15:16

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

or, iniquity of the daughter, etc.

Isaiah 1:9,10 Ezekiel 16:48-50 Matthew 11:23,24 Luke 10:12 12:47

the punishment

9 Genesis 19:25 Daniel 9:12 Matthew 24:21

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 6:2-21 Judges 13:5,7 16:17 Amos 2:11,12 Luke 1:15

purer

1 Samuel 16:12 Psalms 51:7 144:12 Song of Solomon 5:10 Daniel 1:15

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

5:10 Job 30:17-19,30 Joel 2:6 Nahum 2:10

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

1,2 Ruth 1:19,20 Job 2:12 Isaiah 52:14

their skin

Job 19:20 33:21 Psalms 32:4 38:3 102:3-5,11 119:83

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.

for

Leviticus 26:39 Ezekiel 24:23 33:10

pine away

Heb. flow out.

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

hands

3 2:20 2 Kings 6:26-29

pitiful

Isaiah 49:15

in

3:48 Deuteronomy 28:56,57 2 Kings 6:29

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

22 2:8,17 Deuteronomy 32:21-25 Jeremiah 6:11,12 7:20 9:9-11 13:14 Jeremiah 14:15,16 15:1-4 19:3-11 23:19,20 24:8-10 Ezekiel 20:47,48 Ezekiel 22:31 Daniel 9:12 Zechariah 1:6 Luke 21:22

kindled

Deuteronomy 32:22 Jeremiah 21:14

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.

Deuteronomy 29:24-28 1 Kings 9:8,9 Psalms 48:4-6

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

2:14 Jeremiah 5:31 6:13 14:14 23:11-21 Ezekiel 22:26-28 Micah 3:11,12 Zephaniah 3:3,4

that

Jeremiah 2:20 26:8,9 Matthew 23:31,33-37 Luke 11:47-51 Acts 7:52 1 Thessalonians 2:15,16

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 Isaiah 29:10-12 56:10 59:9-11 Micah 3:6,7 Matthew 15:14 Ephesians 4:18

they have polluted

Numbers 35:33 Isaiah 1:15 Jeremiah 2:34

so that men could not touch

or, in that they could not but touch.

Numbers 19:16 Hosea 4:2

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 Leviticus 26:33-39 Deuteronomy 28:25,64,65 32:26 Jeremiah 15:4 24:9

he will

Psalms 106:44 Hebrews 8:9

they respected

5:12 2 Kings 25:18-21 2 Chronicles 36:17 Isaiah 9:14-16

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

1:19 2 Kings 24:7 Isaiah 20:5 30:1-7 31:1-3 Jeremiah 2:18,36 8:20 Jeremiah 37:7-10 Ezekiel 29:6,7,16

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

3:52 1 Samuel 24:14 2 Kings 25:4,5 Job 10:16 Psalms 140:11 Jeremiah 16:16 Jeremiah 39:4,5 52:7-9

our end is near

Jeremiah 1:12 51:33 Ezekiel 7:2-12 12:22,23,27 Amos 8:2

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 Isaiah 5:26-28 30:16,17 Jeremiah 4:13 Hosea 8:1 Habakkuk 1:8 Matthew 24:27,28

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 9:1-3

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

2:9 Genesis 2:7 44:30 2 Samuel 18:3

the anointed

1 Samuel 12:3,5 16:6 24:6,10 26:9,16 2 Samuel 1:14,21 19:21 Psalms 89:20,21

was taken

Jeremiah 39:5 52:8 Ezekiel 12:13 17:18 19:4-8

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

Psalms 83:3-12 137:7 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Ezekiel 25:6,8 26:2 35:11-15 Obadiah 1:10-16

the land

Genesis 36:28 Job 1:1

the cup

Isaiah 34:1-17 63:1-6 Jeremiah 25:15-29 49:12 Ezekiel 25:12-14 35:3-9 Amos 1:11 Obadiah 1:1,10-14 Malachi 1:2-4

and shalt

2 Chronicles 28:19 Micah 1:11 Revelation 16:15

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.

6 *marg:; Isaiah 40:2 Jeremiah 46:27,28 50:20

he will no

Isaiah 52:1 60:18 Jeremiah 32:40 Ezekiel 37:28

he will visit

21 Psalms 137:7

discover thy sins

or, carry thee captive for thy sins.