Lamentations 5:12 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

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

Lamentations 5:12

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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}

They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the maids in the cities of Judah.

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

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

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Lamentations 5:1

"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."

Lamentations 5:2

"Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."

Lamentations 5:3

"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows."

Lamentations 5:4

"We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}"

Lamentations 5:5

"Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}"

Lamentations 5:6

"We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."

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