Lamentations 5:12

Good News Translation

Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.

Cross References

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I treated them as no longer mine: I put them in your power, and you showed them no mercy; even the aged you treated harshly.

Lamentations 2:10

Jerusalem's old men sit on the ground in silence, With dust on their heads and sackcloth on their bodies. Young women bow their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!

Lamentations 4:16

The Lord had no more concern for them; he scattered them himself. He showed no regard for our priests and leaders.

Leviticus 19:32

“Show respect for old people and honor them. Reverently obey me; I am the Lord.