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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."
"The standard of holiness is the same today as in the days of the apostles. Neither the promises nor the requirements of God have lost aught of their force. But what is the state of the Lord's professed people as compared with the early church? Where is the Spirit and power of God which then attended the preaching of the gospel? Alas, “how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed!” 5T 240.1"
EGW directly quotes Lamentations 4:1 to illustrate the decline in spiritual fervor within the church.
Lamentations 4:10
"The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people."
Thousands perished from famine and pestilence. Natural affection seemed to have been destroyed. Husbands robbed their wives, and wives their husbands. Children would be seen snatching the food from the mouths of their aged parents. The question of the prophet, “Can a woman forget her sucking child?” received the answer within the walls of that doomed city: “The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.” Isaiah 49:15 ; Lamentations 4:10 . Again was fulfilled the warning prophecy given fourteen centuries before: “The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ... and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine en…
Ellen White directly references Lamentations 4:10 in this passage.