Lamentations 4:16
in Lamentations 4The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
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ASV
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
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.
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This verse in Lamentations 4
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Literally, The countenance of Yahweh hath scattered them, has driven these outlawed priests here and there, “and He will no more regard them” with favor.
This site's exposition
The anger of the Lord hath divided them
on Lamentations 4:16-17
Verse 16 turns the scattering back to its source, the anger of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them, and even the offices once shown deference find none, the persons of the priests not respected nor the elders favoured. Verse 17 confesses the people's own misplaced hope, eyes failing as they watched for a nation that could not save them, read by the older writers as Egypt, the ally sought instead of the Lord and found empty.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Ain and Pe are here transposed (La 4:16, 17), as in La 2:16, 17; 3:46-51. anger--literally, "face"; it is the countenance which, by its expression, manifests anger (Ps 34:16). GESENIUS translates, "the person of Jehovah";
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Get away. From us, you unclean ones, who are sullied with blood.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פְּנֵ֤י | penei | [the] presence of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| חִלְּקָ֔ם | chilekam | it scattered them | H2505 → | |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יוֹסִ֖יף | yosif | he will repeat | H3254 → | 212 times |
| לְהַבִּיטָ֑ם | lehabitam | to pay attention to them | H5027 → | 69 times |
| פְּנֵ֤י | penei | [the] face of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| כֹהֲנִים֙ | khohanim | priests | H3548 → | 750 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| נָשָׂ֔אוּ | nasau | they lifted up | H5375 → | 656 times |
| וּזְקֵנִ֖ים | vuzekenim | and elders | H2205 → | 178 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| חָנָֽנוּ׃ ס | chananu | they showed favor to | H2603 → |
פְּנֵ֤י[the] presence of
peneiH6440 →2123 times
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
חִלְּקָ֔םit scattered them
chilekamH2505 →
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
יוֹסִ֖יףhe will repeat
yosifH3254 →212 times
לְהַבִּיטָ֑םto pay attention to them
lehabitamH5027 →69 times
פְּנֵ֤י[the] face of
peneiH6440 →2123 times
כֹהֲנִים֙priests
khohanimH3548 →750 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
נָשָׂ֔אוּthey lifted up
nasauH5375 →656 times
וּזְקֵנִ֖יםand elders
vuzekenimH2205 →178 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
חָנָֽנוּ׃ סthey showed favor to
chananuH2603 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hebrews 8:9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was…
- Galatians 4:24
These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
- Mark 8:23
So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He…
- Psalms 77:20
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
- Jeremiah 31:32
Through
Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:64
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…
- Isaiah 63:16
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
- Deuteronomy 28:64
Through
Lamentations 5:12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
it leads to
- Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
- Isaiah 47:6
About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.