Lamentations 4:16 Meaning and Explanation
“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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Read Full Chapter →The LORD himself has scattered them, and the honor once given to priests and elders is gone.
What Does Lamentations 4:16 Mean?
'The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them.' God himself is named as the one who has scattered the people, dispersing them in his anger. The phrase 'he will no more regard them' expresses, from the depths of grief, the agonizing sense that God has turned his attention away. It is the language of a people who feel forsaken.
'They respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.' The conquerors showed no honor to the priests or elders, the figures who once commanded the highest respect. The whole social and spiritual order has been overturned; reverence itself has collapsed. Yet even this sense that God 'will no more regard them' is, in the fuller witness of the book, a feeling of the moment and not the final reality, for the One whose compassions fail not does regard his own.
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What does Lamentations 4:16 mean?
The LORD himself has scattered them, and the honor once given to priests and elders is gone.