Lamentations 5:12 “Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.”

Lamentations 5:12

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

World English Bible

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

American Standard Version

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Geneva Bible 1599

The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.

Darby Translation

Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

Young's Literal Translation

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

Bible in Basic English

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

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Cross references

“Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.”

Lamentations 4:16 Isaiah 47:6 Lamentations 2:10 Lamentations 2:20 Jeremiah 52:25–27 Jeremiah 39:6

Lamentations 4:16 · BSB

The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

Isaiah 47:6 · BSB

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Lamentations 2:10 · BSB

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:20 · BSB

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Jeremiah 52:25–27 · BSB

Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of…

Jeremiah 39:6 · BSB

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

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