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Read Full Chapter (Lamentations 5) Lamentations 5:12 KJV
"Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."
Lamentations Chapter 5, Verse 12
Lamentations 5:12 in Context (Verses 9–15 KJV)
9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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.
12
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.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.