12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.


In Context

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

11 Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.

12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Lamentations 5:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.