Lamentations 5:12

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Lamentations 5:12

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Berean Standard Bible

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

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KJV

King James Version

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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WEB

World English Bible

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

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ASV

American Standard Version

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

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Lamentations 5

¹⁰ Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

¹¹ Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹² Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

¹³ Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

¹⁴ The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

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