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Lamentations 4:16 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 4 · verse 16
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.Lamentations 4:16 · King James Version
Lamentations 4:16 in context
14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16The 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.
17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- respectednâsâʼto lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeH5375 →
- favouredchânanproperly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferiorH2603 →
- dividedchâlaqto be smoothH2505 →
- priestskôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- regardnâbaṭto scanH5027 →
- angerpânîymthe faceH6440 →
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We have here, I. The sins they were charged with, for which God brought this destruction upon them, and which served to justify God in it (Lam 4:13, Lam 4:14): It is for the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests. Not that the people were innocent;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-20