Lamentations 5:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹² 0 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Princes are hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honoured.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² They hung princes by their hands; the persons of elders were not respected.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Common English Bible

¹² Officials have been hung up by their hands; elders have been shown no respect.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

Lamentations 5:12 Cross References

Isaiah 47:6

4 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver them- selves from the power of the dames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.

Lamentations 2:10

8 Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.

Lamentations 2:20

Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

Lamentations 4:16

Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

Leviticus 19:32

7 Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments, and do them. I am the Lord.