Lamentations 4:16
The Lord himself has scattered them; he doesn't bother with them anymore. Nobody respects the priests, and nobody admires the leaders.
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Genesis 49:7I curse their anger because it is too harsh; I curse their fury because it is too cruel! I will separate their descendants throughout Jacob; I will scatter them throughout Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:25The Lord will have your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will scatter seven different ways. Everyone on earth will be horrified at what happens to you.
Deuteronomy 32:26I would have told them I was going to cut them to pieces and wipe out even the memory of them;
2 Kings 25:21The king of Babylon had them executed at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So the people of Judah had to leave their land.
Psalms 106:27that he would disperse their descendants among the heathen nations, scattering them among countries far away.
Isaiah 9:14So in just a single day the Lord will chop off Israel's head and tail, palm branch and reed.
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 →