Lamentations 5:12

The Passion Translation

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

Cross References

Lamentations 4:16

The face of Yahweh scattered them; he will look on them no more. They had no respect for the priests, no honor for her leaders.

Isaiah 47:6

I became angry with my people, so I wounded my special ones. I handed them over to you, and you took them captive. You showed them no mercy; you even made the elderly suffer under your heavy yoke.

Lamentations 2:20

“Look, Yahweh, and please consider. Whom have you ever treated this way? Should women eat their offspring, the little ones they have nursed? Should priests and prophets be slaughtered in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of beloved Zion sit mute on the ground. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young virgins of Jerusalem bow their heads in sorrow to the ground.