Lamentations 4:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The anger of the Lord has scattered [and divided them among the nations]; He will no longer look after them. They did not respect the persons of the priests; they did not favor the elders.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ It was the LORD’s presence that scattered them; he no longer notices them. They didn’t honor the priests’ presence; they didn’t favor the elders.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ PHE. The face of the Lord has divided them. He will no longer respect them. They were not ashamed before the faces of the priests, nor did they take pity on the elderly.

Lamentations 4:16 Cross References

Genesis 49:7

Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hands shall be on the necks of thy enemies: the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.

2 Chronicles 36:17

2 But in the first year d of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus king of the Persians who commanded it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also, saying:

Psalm 106:27

4 They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.

Psalm 106:44

From the rising and the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.

Isaiah 24:2

0 The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.

Isaiah 47:6

4 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver them- selves from the power of the dames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.

Jeremiah 15:4

2 Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?

Jeremiah 24:9

And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.

Jeremiah 52:24

2 And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

Lamentations 2:20

Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

Lamentations 2:6

4 Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.

Lamentations 5:12

0 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Ezekiel 5:10

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Deuteronomy 28:25

0 Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.

Deuteronomy 32:26

1 For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.

Hebrews 8:9

And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly.