Lamentations 5:12
שָׂרִים בְּיָדָם נִתְלוּ פְּנֵי זְקֵנִים לֹא נֶהְדָּֽרוּ ׃
Hebrew Tanakh (Original)
In The King James Version
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
In Context
11נָשִׁים בְּצִיּוֹן עִנּוּ בְּתֻלֹת בְּעָרֵי יְהוּדָֽה ׃
13בַּחוּרִים טְחוֹן נָשָׂאוּ וּנְעָרִים בָּעֵץ כָּשָֽׁלוּ ׃
Cross References
Isaiah 47:6קָצַפְתִּי עַל ־ עַמִּי חִלַּלְתִּי נַחֲלָתִי וָאֶתְּנֵם בְּיָדֵךְ לֹא ־ שַׂמְתְּ לָהֶם רַחֲמִים עַל ־ זָקֵן הִכְבַּדְתְּ עֻלֵּךְ מְאֹֽד ׃
Jeremiah 52:10וַיִּשְׁחַט מֶֽלֶךְ ־ בָּבֶל אֶת ־ בְּנֵי צִדְקִיָּהוּ לְעֵינָיו וְגַם אֶת ־ כָּל ־ שָׂרֵי יְהוּדָה שָׁחַט בְּרִבְלָֽתָה ׃
Lamentations 2:10יֵשְׁבוּ לָאָרֶץ יִדְּמוּ זִקְנֵי בַת ־ צִיּוֹן הֶֽעֱלוּ עָפָר עַל ־ רֹאשָׁם חָגְרוּ שַׂקִּים הוֹרִידוּ לָאָרֶץ רֹאשָׁן בְּתוּלֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם ׃ ס
Lamentations 4:16פְּנֵי יְהוָה חִלְּקָם לֹא יוֹסִיף לְהַבִּיטָם פְּנֵי כֹהֲנִים לֹא נָשָׂאוּ זקנים לֹא חָנָֽנוּ ׃ ס
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 →