Lamentations 5:12
“Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured.”
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Lamentations 5:12 Context
10Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine. 11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah. 12Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured. 13They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood. 14The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
- King James Version
Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.
- New American Standard Version (1995)