Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hanged by their hands;elders were shown no respect.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
In Context
11They raped the women in Zion,the virgins in the cities of Judah.
13The young men grind at the mill;the boys stagger under loads of wood.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:6I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
Jeremiah 52:10The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence.They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth.The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.KAPH
Lamentations 4:16The Lord himself has scattered them; he will no more regard them.They did not respect the priests, they did not favor the elders.AYIN
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 →