Lamentations 4:16
Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had they pity on the ancient.
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Genesis 49:7Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel: I Will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:25The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:26I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
2 Kings 25:21And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha in the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.
Psalms 106:27And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.
Isaiah 9:14And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:14-21
Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. 16 The anger of the Lord hath divided… Read the whole commentary →