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Lamentations 4:16

Lamentations chapter 4 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.15Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.

v.16This passage

v.17Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17

    Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

  • Lamentations 5:12

    Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

  • 2 Kings 25:18

    And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

  • Genesis 49:7

    Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.

  • Psalms 106:44

    Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry:

  • Deuteronomy 28:25

    Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.