TSK · Lamentations 4:16

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!

Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.

So the LORD cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.

I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.