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The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn`t respect the persons of the priests, they didn`t favor the elders.
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The Face of Divine Judgment
Commentators agree that the scattering of Judah's leaders was not a random political event but a direct act of God's judgment. Scholars explain that the phrase "the anger of the Lord" (literally "the face of the Lord") signifies God's personal and active wrath in response to sin, leading to their exile.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Literally, The countenance of Yahweh has scattered them, has driven these outlawed priests here and there, and He will no more regard …
19th Century
Anglican
The anger of the Lord. —Literally, the face, as the symbol of wrath.
They did not respect. —The s…
16th Century
Protestant
He explains himself by saying that they had been scattered from the face of Jehovah. He had said that they had fled into foreign lands and that the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The anger of the Lord has divided them Or, "the face of the Lord" F6 ; the anger that appeared in his fac…
Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Div…
13th Century
Catholic
Regarding the infliction of punishment, when the text says the face of the Lord, it means His foreknowledge; and when it s…
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