Lamentations 4:16

Translations

Modern

The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

Traditional

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.

Literal

The face of YHWH has scattered them; He shall not continue to look on them; the faces of the priests they do not lift up, and to the elders they do not show favor.

Latin

Facies Domini divisit eos, non addet ut respiciat eos; facies sacerdotum non erubuerunt, neque senum miserti sunt.

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English

The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

Notes

Lamentations 4:1–22

Although God’s people still experience his judgment, they will soon experience restoration.

Related verses

Isaiah 9:14–16
So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Deuteronomy 28:25
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
Deuteronomy 28:64–65
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Hebrews 8:9
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.
Leviticus 26:33–39
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
2 Chronicles 36:17
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Jeremiah 15:4
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
Psalm 106:44
Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

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