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Lamentations 4:16

The presence of the Lord was their portion; 1 But he will not again look upon them: 1 They regarded not the person of the priests, 1 They pitied not the prophets. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

In Context

15Depart ye from the unclean ones: 1 Call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: 1 For they are on fire, yea, they stagger: 1 Say ye among the nations, 1 They shall no more sojourn there. 1

17While we yet lived our eyes failed, 1 While we looked in vain for our help. 1 We looked to a nation that could not save. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, 1 And their anger, for it was cruel: 1 I will divide them in Jacob, 1 And scatter them in Israel. 1

Deuteronomy 28:25The Lord give thee up for slaughter before thine enemies: thou shalt go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and thou shalt be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I will scatter them, 1 And I will cause their memorial to cease from among men. 1

2 Kings 25:21And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away from his land.

Psalms 106:27They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, 1 And all their wisdom is swallowed up. 1

Isaiah 9:14the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

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 →

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