Lamentations 4:16

New Century Version

The Lord himself scattered them and did not look after them anymore. No one respects the priests or honors the elders.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

May their anger be cursed, because it is too violent. May their violence be cursed, because it is too cruel. I will divide them up among the tribes of Jacob and scatter them through all the tribes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So God brought the king of Babylon to attack them. The king killed the young men even when they were in the Temple. He had no mercy on the young men or women, the old men or those who were sick. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

Psalm 106:27

He said their children would be killed by other nations and that they would be scattered among other countries.

Psalm 106:44

But God saw their misery when he heard their cry.

Isaiah 24:2

At that time the same thing will happen to everyone: to common people and priests, to slaves and masters, to women slaves and their women masters, to buyers and sellers, to those who borrow and those who lend, to bankers and those who owe the bank.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, so I rejected those who belonged to me. I gave them to you, but you showed them no mercy. You even made the old people work very hard.

Jeremiah 15:4

I will make the people of Judah hated by everyone on earth because of what Manasseh did in Jerusalem. (Manasseh son of Hezekiah was king of the nation of Judah.)

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make those people hated as an evil people by all the kingdoms of the earth. People will make fun of them and tell jokes about them and point fingers at them and curse them everywhere I scatter them.

Jeremiah 52:24

The commander of the king’s special guards took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

Lamentations 2:20

Jerusalem says: “Look, Lord, and see to whom you have done this. Women eat their own babies, the children they have cared for. Priests and prophets are killed in the Temple of the Lord.

Lamentations 2:6

He cut down his Temple like a garden; he destroyed the meeting place. The Lord has made Jerusalem forget the set feasts and Sabbath days. He has rejected the king and the priest in his great anger.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hung by the hands; they did not respect our elders.

Ezekiel 5:10

So parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and will scatter to the winds all who are left alive.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will help your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in seven directions. And you will become a thing of horror among all the kingdoms on earth.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I will scatter them as I said, and no one will remember them.

Hebrews 8:9

It will not be like the agreement I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of Egypt. But they broke that agreement, and I turned away from them, says the Lord.