Lamentations 4:16

New Living Translation

The Lord himself has scattered them, and he no longer helps them. People show no respect for the priests and no longer honor the leaders.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

A curse on their anger, for it is fierce; a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel. I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob; I will disperse them throughout Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So the Lord brought the king of Babylon against them. The Babylonians killed Judah’s young men, even chasing after them into the Temple. They had no pity on the people, killing both young men and young women, the old and the infirm. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

Psalm 106:27

that he would scatter their descendants among the nations, exiling them to distant lands.

Psalm 106:44

Even so, he pitied them in their distress and listened to their cries.

Isaiah 24:2

Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors—none will be spared.

Isaiah 47:6

For I was angry with my chosen people and punished them by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You oppressed even the elderly.

Jeremiah 15:4

Because of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them.

Jeremiah 52:24

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took with him as prisoners Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three chief gatekeepers.

Lamentations 2:20

“O Lord, think about this! Should you treat your own people this way? Should mothers eat their own children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets be killed within the Lord’s Temple?

Lamentations 2:6

He has broken down his Temple as though it were merely a garden shelter. The Lord has blotted out all memory of the holy festivals and Sabbath days. Kings and priests fall together before his fierce anger.

Lamentations 5:12

Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.

Ezekiel 5:10

Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter to the winds the few who survive.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have annihilated them, wiping out even the memory of them.

Hebrews 8:9

This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt. They did not remain faithful to my covenant, so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.