Lamentations 4:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ The face of יהוה  scattered them. He no longer regards them. They showed no respect for the priests Nor favour to the elders.

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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

“Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Yaʽ

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore He brought against them the sovereign of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the House of their set-apart place, and had no compassion on young man or maiden, on the aged or the weak – He gave all into his hand.

Psalm 106:27

And to make their seed fall among the gentiles, And to scatter them in the lands.

Psalm 106:44

But He would look on their distress, When He heard their cry,

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be – as with the people so with the priest, as with the servant so with his master, as with the female servant so with her mistress, as with the buyer so with the seller, as with the lender so with the borrower, as with the creditor so with the debtor;

Isaiah 47:6

“I was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

Jeremiah 15:4

“And I shall make them for a horror to all the reigns of the earth, on account of Menashsheh son of Ḥ

Jeremiah 24:9

‘And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them.

Jeremiah 52:24

And the chief of the guard took Serayah the chief priest, and Tsephanyah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

Lamentations 2:20

“See, O יהוה, and look attentively To whom have You done thus. Should the women eat their offspring, Infants of a hand breadth? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the set-apart place of יהוה ?

Lamentations 2:6

He has demolished His booth like a garden, He has destroyed His place of meeting. יהוה  has made the appointed times and Sabbaths To be forgotten in Tsiyon, And despises sovereign and priest In His raging displeasure.

Lamentations 5:12

Rulers were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

Ezekiel 5:10

‘Therefore fathers are going to eat their sons in your midst, and sons eat their fathers. And I shall execute judgments among you and scatter all your remnant to all the winds.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“יהוה  causes you to be defeated before your enemies – you go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall become a horror to all the reigns of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:26

“I said, ‘I should blow them away, I should make the remembrance of them To cease from among men,

Hebrews 8:9

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them,” says יהוה.