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Lamentations 4:16

The anger of Hashem hath scattered them; 1 He will no more regard them; 1 they respected not the persons of the Kohanim; 1 they showed no favor to the Zekenim. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

15They cried unto them: Go away; 1 tamei (unclean)! 1 Depart, depart, touch not; 1 so they fled away and wandered. They said among the Goyim: 1 They shall no more sojourn there. 1

17As for us, our eyes failed 1 looking in vain for ezratenu (our help); 1 from our towers we have watched 1 for a nation that could not save us. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Arur (cursed) be their anger, for it was fierce; 1 and their wrath, for it was cruel; 1 I will dispense them in Ya'akov, 1 and scatter them in Yisroel. 1

Deuteronomy 28:25Hashem shall cause thee to be defeated before thine enemies; thou shalt go out derech echad against them, and flee shivah derakhim before them; and shalt be an object of horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I will dash them in pieces, 1 I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men; 1

2 Kings 25:21And Melech Bavel struck them, and slaughtered them at Rivlah in Eretz Chamat. So Yehudah was carried away captive out of their land.

Psalms 106:27To make their zera fall also among the Goyim, 1 and to scatter them among the aratzot (lands). 1

Isaiah 9:14The zaken and prominent man is the head; 1 and the navi that is the moreh sheker (teacher of lies, false teacher) is the tail. 1

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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