Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 5:12
12Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are dishonored.
Lamentations 5:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
- New International Version (NIV)Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.
Context of Lamentations 5:12
10Our skin is hot as an oven due to fever from famine. 11The women in Zion have been ravished, maidens in the towns of Judah. Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are dishonored. 13Young men toil at the millstone. Boys stagger under loads of wood. 14Elders are gone from the gate, young men from their music.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:12 word by word
שָׂרִים֙ בְּיָדָ֣ם נִתְל֔וּ פְּנֵ֥י זְקֵנִ֖ים לֹ֥א נֶהְדָּֽרוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:12
- Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence. They threw dust on their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
- Lamentations 4:16Adonai Himself has scattered them. He will look on them no more. They did not respect the kohanim. They did not favor the elders.
- Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people. I profaned My heritage. I gave them into your hand, but you showed them no mercy. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.
- Jeremiah 39:6The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes. Moreover, the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
- Jeremiah 52:10At Riblah, the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, and also all the Judean leaders.
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Princes are hanged up by their hand - It is very probable that this was a species of punishment. They were suspended from hooks in the wall by their hands till they died through torture and exhaustion. The body of Saul was fastened to the wall of Bethshan, probably in the same way; but his head had already been taken off. They were hung in this way that they might be devoured by the fowls of the air. It was a custom with the Persians after they had slain…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12After the princes had been put to death their bodies were hung up by the hand to expose them to public contumely. Old age, again, no more availed to shield men from shameful treatment than the high rank of the princes. Such treatment of conquered enemies was not uncommon in ancient warfare.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-17These terrible things happened because the people had sinned (see Isaiah 24:7–12; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 13:18; Jeremiah 25:10–11; Amos 8:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. hanged ... by their hand--a piece of wanton cruelty invented by the Chaldeans. Grotius translates, "Princes were hung by the hand of the enemy"; hanging was a usual mode of execution (Ge 40:19). elders--officials (La 4:16).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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