Lamentations 5:12
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
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ASV
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
KJV
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Princes are hanged up by their hand,.... According to some, as Aben Ezra observes, by the hand of the servants before mentioned; however, by the hand of the Chaldeans or Babylonians; see Jer 52:
Some think that the dead bodies of the princes, after they were slain with the sword, were hung up, as the bodies of Saul's sons, in disgrace to them, and as it were to expiate the nation's guilt. (3.) No respect was shown to magistrates and those in authority: The faces of elders, elders in age, elders in office, were not honoured.
Princes 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.
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Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
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But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the…
but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
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Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to…
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And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.