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Lamentations 4:16

The face of Yahweh, hath scattered them, He will look them out no more: The persons of the priests, they have not respected, To the elders, have they shown no favour.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

15Turn aside! Unclean! have they cried to them, Turn aside! Turn aside! Do not touch! because they have fled, yea, wandered, Men said among the nations, They will not again tarry;

17Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched—for a nation that will not save.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Accursed, be their anger, because fierce, And their wrath because cruel,—I divide them in Jacob, And I disperse them in Israel.

Deuteronomy 28:25Yahweh will give thee up to be routed before thine enemies, one way, shalt thou go out against them, and, seven ways, shalt thou flee before them,—and thou shalt become a terror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory;

2 Kings 25:21and the king of Babylon smote them and slew them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath,—and thus Judah disappeared from off their own soil.

Psalms 106:27And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands.

Isaiah 9:14Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel—Head and tail Palm-top and rush, 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 →

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