King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:12
“Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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