Lamentations 4:1

LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 4 Zion bewaileth her misery, confesseth her sins, Lamentations 4:1. Miseries of the chief ones; women who killed and dressed their own children, Lamentations 4:7. The sin of the false prophets and priests; their vain hope, Lamentations 4:13. Their king taken prisoner, Lamentations 4:20. Edom is threatened, and Zion comforted, Lamentations 4:21,22. Though some take gold here metaphorically, as signifying the most precious things, yet the most and best interpreters take it in its native sense, for the gold which adorned the temple either in its ceiling or in its vessels; the house of the Lord being burnt by Nebuzar-adan, Jeremiah 52:13, the gold in and about the temple must needs be discoloured. How! is here a note of admiration. Are poured out in the top of every street; that is, are tumbled down and scattered in the head of every street about the city.