Lamentations 5:12
Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
In Context
11Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
13Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:6I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, …Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy thy yoke.
Jeremiah 52:10And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes,—moreover also all the princes of Judah, slew he in Riblah;
Lamentations 2:10Seated on the ground, in silence, are the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have lifted up dust on their head, have girded themselves with sackcloth,—Bowed down to the ground is the head, of the virgins of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 4:16The face of Yahweh, hath scattered them, He will look them out no more: The persons of the priests, they have not respected, To the elders, have they shown no favour.
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 →