Bible verse
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
Lamentations 5:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 5.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
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.
15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
KJV
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
ASV
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
ERV
Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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