World English Bible
Lamentations 5:12
“Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
10
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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