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Lamentations Chapter 5 verse 12 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
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BBE Lamentations 5:12

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
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DARBY Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
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KJV Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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WBT Lamentations 5:12

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WEB Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
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YLT Lamentations 5:12

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Princes are hanged up by their hand; i.e. by the hand of the enemy. Impalement after death was a common punishment with the Assyrians and Babylonians. Thus Sennacherib says that, after capturing rebellious Ekron, he hung the bodies of the chief men on stakes all round the city ('Records of the Past,' 1:38). Benomi gives a picture of such an impalement from one of the plates in Botta's great work ('Nineveh and its Palaces,' p. 192).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Princes are hanged . . .--The words point to the shameless exposure of the bodies of the dead. (Comp. the treatment of Saul and his sons in 1Samuel 31:10-12.) This was the common practice of the Assyrian kings (Records of the Past, i. 38). Neither age nor dignity (both are implied in the word "elders") was any safeguard against atrocities, either in life or death.