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.
"The iniquity of ... my people is greater than the sin of Sodom"  (Lamentations 4:6a).  The tragedy of this shocking fact is often overlooked. Ezekiel elaborated the same truth  (Ezekiel 16); but the consequences of it reached far beyond Jerusalem.  For Sodom's wickedness, God destroyed them. Why did he not then destroy Israel which had become worse than Sodom?  It was only because God had promised Abraham and the patriarchs that he would bring in the Messiah, The Seed Singular, through Abraham's posterity.  In a sense, God was 'stuck with Israel,' until that promise was fulfilled in the birth of Christ.  Israel deserved a worse punishment than Sodom, for their sin was greater, and this verse indicates that their punishment was worse!