The LORD himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.
God scattered them from His face, this is certain. Yet His promise to gather Israel stands firm, and the appointed time of return is fixed. What the Prophet sees is only the present desolation: the people erased, the priesthood extinct, the Temple razed. Who could look on such ruin and hope? The darkness is total, the ways all closed.
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The prophets and priests bear chief fault, not that the people were innocent, but these watchmen should have warned them and did not. They shed the blood of the righteous to please their people and advance their false religion. Nothing ripens a nation for ruin faster than the sins of those set to teach the truth.
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Commenting on Lamentations 4:13-20
The Lord's anger, written in His face, has dispersed them. He will not look on them with love but in continued wrath. Whether this speaks of their former sin against the true prophets, or of the contempt the heathen nations now show toward their priests and elders, the result stands: they are cast down and show no respect.
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