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Lamentations 5:12

10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

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

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

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

14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
KJV
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
WEB
Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
ASV
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
DARBY
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
BLB
Princes were hanged by their hands; [and] the faces of the elders were not honored.
ÅB
Fyrster har de hengt, de gamles åsyn har de ikke hedret.
OTB
Ledere har blitt hengt opp av sine hender; eldste får ingen respekt.
B1930
Fyrster har de hengt, de gamles åsyn har de ikke hedret.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Lamentations 4:16

    The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

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  • Isaiah 47:6

    I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

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  • Jeremiah 52:10–11

    There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.

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  • Lamentations 2:20

    Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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  • Jeremiah 52:25–27

    Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

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  • Lamentations 2:10

    The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

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  • Jeremiah 39:6–7

    There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

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