Lamentations 4:16
The anger of the LORD has divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:25The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before yours enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
2 Kings 25:21And the king of Babylon stroke them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
Psalms 106:27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
Isaiah 9:14Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch 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 →