Lamentations 5:12
Good News Translation
Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.

New Revised Standard Version
Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Contemporary English Version
Our rulers are strung up by their arms, and our nation's advisors are treated shamefully.

New American Bible
Princes have been hanged by them, elders shown no respect.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

Lamentations 2:10,20 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. . . .

Lamentations 4:16 Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had they pity on the ancient.

Isaiah 47:6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

Jeremiah 39:6,7 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias, in Reblatha, before his eyes: and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda. . . .

Jeremiah 52:10,11,25-27 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before his eyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha. . . .

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. 12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32
Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

Lamentations 4:16
Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had they pity on the ancient.

Lamentations 5:11
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