15 “Away! (A)Unclean!” people cried at them.
    “Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
    people said among the nations,
    “They shall stay with us no longer.”

16 (B)The Lord himself[a] has scattered them;
    he will regard them no more;
(C)no honor was shown to the priests,
    (D)no favor to the elders.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:16 Hebrew The face of the Lord

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