The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
Cross References
Isaiah 9:14So the LORD will cut off Israel's head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
Jeremiah 52:24The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
Lamentations 5:12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
Treasury of Scripture
The anger of the LORD has divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
anger.
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.
Leviticus 26:33-39
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste…
Deuteronomy 28:25,64,65
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth…
he will
Psalm 106:44
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
Hebrews 8:9
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
they respected
Lamentations 5:12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
2 Kings 25:18-21
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: …
2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
