Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
New American Standard Bible
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
the fine gold become dull!
The stones of the temple
at the corner of every street.
International Standard Version
How tarnished the gold has become, the finest gold debased! Sacred stones have been scattered at every street corner.
A Conservative Version
How the gold has become dim, the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones [of the temple] are poured out and scattered
At the head of every street.
Darby Translation
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!
Julia Smith Translation
How will the gold become dim the good gold will be changed the stones of the holy place shall be poured out in the head of all the streets.
King James 2000
How has the gold become dim! how has the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Lexham Expanded Bible
How [the] gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street.
Modern King James verseion
How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street?
NET Bible
(Alef)Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.
New Heart English Bible
How the gold has become dim. How the most pure gold has changed. The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
The Emphasized Bible
How is dimmed the gold! changed the most fine gold! Poured out are the stones of the sanctuary, at the top of all the streets.
Webster
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
Temple » Solomon's » Destroyed by nebuchadnezzar, and the valuable contents carried to babylon
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
1 How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street. 2 The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Ezekiel 7:19-22
They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.
2 Kings 25:9-10
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;
Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
Isaiah 14:12
How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
Jeremiah 52:13
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:
Matthew 24:2
But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.
Mark 13:2
And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned.
Luke 21:5-6
And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,