Lamentations 5:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Princes are hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honoured.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

They hung princes by their hands; the persons of elders were not respected.

American Standard Version (1901)

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Common English Bible

Officials have been hung up by their hands; elders have been shown no respect.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

Lamentations 5:12 Cross References

Isaiah 47:6

I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:20

See, O LORD, and behold, to whom thou hast done thus! shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:16

The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

Leviticus 19:32

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.