Lamentations 5:12
Sarim (princes) are hanged by their yad; 1 the faces of Zekenim were not respected. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
In Context
11They ravished the nashim in Tziyon, 1 and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah. 1
13They took the bochurim to grind, 1 and the ne'arim staggered under the wood. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people, 1 I have profaned Mine nachalah, 1 and given them into thine yad; 1 thou didst show them no rachamim (mercy); 1 upon the zaken (ancient, old) hast thou very heavily laid thy ol (yoke). 1
Jeremiah 52:10And Melech Bavel slaughtered the Bnei Tzidkiyah before his eyes; he slaughtered also all the sarim (princes) of Yehudah in Rivlah.
Lamentations 2:10The Ziknei Bat Tziyon sit upon the ground, 1 and keep silence; 1 they have cast up aphar upon their heads; 1 they have girded themselves with sackcloth; 1 the Betulot Yerushalayim hang down 1 their heads to the ground. 1
Lamentations 4:16The anger of Hashem hath scattered them; 1 He will no more regard them; 1 they respected not the persons of the Kohanim; 1 they showed no favor to the Zekenim. 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 →