Lamentations 5:12
Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
In Context
11They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
13The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:6I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into thy hand. Thou showed them no mercy. Upon the aged thou have laid thy yoke very heavily.
Jeremiah 52:10And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust upon their heads. They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations 4:16The anger of LORD has scattered them. He will no more regard them. They did not respect the persons of the priests. They did not favor the elders.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →