Lamentations 5:12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. The final lament is a communal prayer that lacks the alphabetic acrostic of the previous four poems. The community cries for God to remember: their inheritance has been turned over to strangers, women have been violated, and old men sit …
Otras traducciones
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
Referencias cruzadas
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew …
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus …
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven …
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him …
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of …
Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon …
The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of …
Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of …
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon …