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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 4:16 - 4:16
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Ain and Pe are here transposed (Lam 4:16, Lam 4:17), as in Lam 2:16, Lam 2:17; Lam 3:46-51.
anger - literally, “face”; it is the countenance which, by its expression, manifests anger (Psa 34:16). Gesenius translates, “the person of Jehovah”; Jehovah present; Jehovah Himself (Exo 33:14; 2Sa 17:11).
divided - dispersed the Jews.
they respected not ... priests - This is the language of the Gentiles. “The Jews have no hope of a return: for they respected not even good priests” (2Ch 24:19-22) [Grotius]. Maurer explains it, “They (the victorious foe) regard not the (Jewish) priests when imploring their pity” (Lam 5:12). The evident antithesis to “As for us” (Lam 4:17) and the language of “the heathen” at the close of Lam 4:15, of which Lam 4:16 is the continuation, favor the former view.