15 “Keep away! (A)Unclean!” [a]they cried out of themselves.
“Keep away, keep away, do not touch!”
For they (B)distanced themselves as well as wandered;
People among the nations said,
“They shall not continue to reside with us.”
16 The presence of the Lord has scattered them,
He will not continue to look at them;
They did not [b](C)honor the priests,
They did not favor the elders.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:15 Or they (other people) cried to them
  2. Lamentations 4:16 Lit lift up the faces of

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