For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,(Lamentations 4:13)

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.(Lamentations 4:14)

They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.(Lamentations 4:15)

The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.(Lamentations 4:17)

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.(Lamentations 4:18)

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.(Lamentations 4:19)

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Lamentations 4:16 - Cross Reference

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (Hebrews 8:9)

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. (Isaiah 9:14)

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. (Leviticus 26:33)

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: (Deuteronomy 32:26)

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: (2 Kings 25:18)

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. (Genesis 49:7)

The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. (Deuteronomy 28:25)

And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 15:4)

And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. (Jeremiah 24:9)

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. (Lamentations 5:12)

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. (Deuteronomy 28:64)

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: (Psalm 106:44)

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. (2 Chronicles 36:17)