Lamentations 5:12
King James Version (KJV)
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
In context
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.
Lamentations 5:12 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
- WEB World English Bible
- Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.