Lamentations 4:1 References

1 How adark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are poured out At the corner of every street.

a Ezekiel 7:19-22


Ezekiel 7

19 'They will afling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their bsilver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.
20 'They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and athey made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.
21 'I will give it into the hands of the aforeigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
22 'I will also turn My aface from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.