Lamentations 4:16

Good News Translation

The Lord had no more concern for them; he scattered them himself. He showed no regard for our priests and leaders.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

A curse be on their anger, because it is so fierce, And on their fury, because it is so cruel. I will scatter them throughout the land of Israel. I will disperse them among its people.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So the Lord brought the king of Babylonia to attack them. The king killed the young men of Judah even in the Temple. He had no mercy on anyone, young or old, man or woman, sick or healthy. God handed them all over to him.

Psalm 106:27

and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.

Psalm 106:44

Yet the Lord heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress.

Isaiah 24:2

Everyone will meet the same fate—the priests and the people, slaves and masters, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, rich and poor.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I treated them as no longer mine: I put them in your power, and you showed them no mercy; even the aged you treated harshly.

Jeremiah 15:4

I will make all the people of the world horrified at them because of what Hezekiah's son Manasseh did in Jerusalem when he was king of Judah.”

Jeremiah 24:9

I will bring such a disaster on them that all the nations of the world will be terrified. People will make fun of them, make jokes about them, ridicule them, and use their name as a curse everywhere I scatter them.

Jeremiah 52:24

In addition, Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners Seraiah the High Priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three other important Temple officials.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!

Lamentations 2:6

He smashed to pieces the Temple where we worshiped him; He has put an end to holy days and Sabbaths. King and priest alike have felt the force of his anger.

Lamentations 5:12

Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.

Hebrews 8:9

It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They were not faithful to the covenant I made with them, and so I paid no attention to them.