Lamentations 5:12

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Lamentations 4:16

The anger of LORD has scattered them. He will no more regard them. They did not respect the persons of the priests. They did not favor the elders.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into thy hand. Thou showed them no mercy. Upon the aged thou have laid thy yoke very heavily.

Lamentations 2:20

See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of LORD?

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.

Leviticus 19:32

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