Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
In Context
11They humbled the women in Zion, 1 The virgins in the cities of Judah. 1
13The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, 1 And the youths fainted under the wood. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 47:6I have been provoked with my people; thou hast defiled mine inheritance: I gave them into thy hand, but thou didst not extend mercy to them: thou madest the yoke of the aged man very heavy,
Jeremiah 52:10And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion 1 Have sat upon the ground, 1 They have kept silence: 1 They have cast up dust upon their heads; 1 They have girded themselves with sackcloth: 1 They have brought down to the ground 1 The chief virgins in Jerusalem. 1
Lamentations 4:16The presence of the Lord was their portion; 1 But he will not again look upon them: 1 They regarded not the person of the priests, 1 They pitied not the prophets. 1
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 →