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 …
Other Translations
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.
Cross References
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew …
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon …
Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of …
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him …
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven …
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus …
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon …
Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of …
The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of …