The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 122
122. Internal Meaning of Lamentations, Chapter 4
1-3 Holy truths and goods turned into falsities, (3, 4)
4 so that there is a lack of all of them. (3)
5-8 Their spiritual things have become infernal. (3)
9-10 Affections of truth have become cupidities of falsity. (3)
11 They were against the Lord. (3, 4)
12-14 They falsified the truths of the Word. (3)
16-17 The Word was rejected owing to their own intelligence. (3, 11)
18-19 Nothing of the church was left, and therefore came their destruction. (3)
Lamentations 4:1-3
1
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.
2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
