Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The Nazarites from their temperance were remarkable for health and personal beauty, besides being held in religious veneration.
Rubies - Or, corals.
Their polishing was of sapphire - Or, their shape was "a sapphire." The allusion is no longer to color, but to form. Their shape was exact and faultless as the cutting of a precious stone.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Lamentations 4:7:
Job 28:18
Proverbs 3:15
Amos 2:11
Micah 7:5-6
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