Lamentations 4:1

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.

Ver. 1. How is the gold become dim.?] How by way of wonderment again, as Lamentations 1:1. - q.d., Quo tanto scelere hominum, et qua tanta indignatione Dei? a What have men done, and how hath God been provoked, that there are such strange alterations here all on the sudden? By gold, and fine gold, here understand the temple overlaid by Solomon with choice gold; or God's people, his spiritual temple, who had now lost their lustre and dignity.

The stones of the sanctuary are poured out.] Come tumbling down from the demolished temple.

a Pet. a Figueir.