Lamentations 5:12 — Bible Verse (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5:12 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Lamentations 5:12 in 6 Bible Translations

Read Lamentations 5:12 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.

Lamentations 5:12 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

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

Lamentations 5:12 — World English Bible

Lamentations 5:12 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

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

Lamentations 5:12 — American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:12 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.”

Lamentations 5:12 — Young's Literal Translation

Lamentations 5:12 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.”

Lamentations 5:12 — Darby Translation

Lamentations 5:12 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.”

Lamentations 5:12 — Geneva Bible

Lamentations 5:12 in Context — Lamentations 5

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.

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What Does Lamentations 5:12 Mean?

Lamentations 5:12 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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