Lamentations 5:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² 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 have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and 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

Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? 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 favored not the elders.

Leviticus 19:32

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