Bible verse
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
Lamentations 4:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 4.
1 How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
2 How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
4 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the top of every street.
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