Lamentations 4:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פְּנֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ חִלְּקָ֔ם לֹ֥א יוֹסִ֖יף לְהַבִּיטָ֑ם פְּנֵ֤י כֹהֲנִים֙ לֹ֣א נָשָׂ֔אוּ וּזְקֵנִ֖ים לֹ֥א חָנָֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

The pənê YHWH ḥilləqām, not will he yôsîp̄ to ləhabbîṭām; the pənê ḵōhănîm not they nāśāʾû, and zəqēnîm not they ḥānānû

Grammar Details

*pənê*: masculine plural construct - faces of
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/the LORD
*ḥilləqām*: Piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - he divided them/scattered them
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yôsîp̄*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will continue
*ləhabbîṭām*: preposition + Hiphil infinitive construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - to look at them
*ḵōhănîm*: masculine plural noun - priests
*nāśāʾû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they respected/lifted up
*û-zəqēnîm*: conjunction + masculine plural noun - and elders
*ḥānānû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they showed favor

Word Meanings

*pənê*: face/presence/person
*ḥilləqām*: scattered them/divided them/apportioned them
*yôsîp̄*: will continue/will add/will do again
*ləhabbîṭām*: to look at them/to regard them/to watch them
*nāśāʾû*: respected/showed honor to/lifted up
*ḥānānû*: showed favor/were gracious to/had mercy on

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Referenced Verses

Isa 9:14-16 : 14 Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. 15 The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Lam 5:12 : 12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
Heb 8:9 : 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Jer 15:4 : 4 And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 24:9 : 9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Gen 49:7 : 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.
Lev 26:33-39 : 33 And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Deut 28:25 : 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.
Deut 28:64-65 : 64 And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
Deut 32:26 : 26 I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
2 Kgs 25:18-21 : 18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: 19 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and five men of them that saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the city. 20 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
2 Chr 36:17 : 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.
Ps 106:44 : 44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry:

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