Lamentations 4:16 References

16 The presence of the Lord has scattered them, He will not continue to regard them; They did not ahonor the priests, They did not favor the elders.

a Isaiah 9:14-16, Jeremiah 52:24-27


Isaiah 9

14 So the Lord cuts off ahead and tail from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush bin a single day.
15 The head is athe elder and honorable man, And the prophet who teaches bfalsehood is the tail.
16 aFor those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

Jeremiah 52

24 Then the captain of the guard took aSeraiah the chief priest and bZephaniah the second priest, with the three cofficers of the temple.
25 He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven of the aking's advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and abrought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27 Then the king of Babylon astruck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was bled away into exile from its land.