Lamentations 4:16

The Scriptures 2009

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

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

“Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Ya‛aqoḇ and scatter them in Yisra’ĕl.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore He brought against them the sovereign of the Kasdim, and he killed 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 nations, 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 Ḥizqiyahu, sovereign of Yehuḏah, because of what he did in Yerushalayim.

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 killed 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.