Lamentations 5:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:16 : 16 The anger of the Lorde hath scattered them, he will no more regard them: they reuerenced not the face of the Priestes, nor had compassion of the Elders.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was wroth with my people: I haue polluted mine inheritance, and giuen them into thine had: thou diddest shew them no mercy, but thou didest lay thy very heauy yoke vpon the ancient.
  • Jer 39:6-7 : 6 Then the King of Babel slewe the sonnes of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the King of Babel slewe all the nobles of Iudah. 7 Moreouer he put out Zedekiahs eyes, and bound him in chaines, to cary him to Babel.
  • Jer 52:10-11 : 10 And the king of Babel slewe the sonnes of Zedekiah, before his eyes he slew also al ye princes of Iudah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babel bound him in chaines, and caried him to Babel, and put him in pryson till the day of his death.
  • Jer 52:25-27 : 25 Hee tooke also out of the citie an Eunuch, which had the ouersight of the men of warre, and seuen men that were in the Kings presence, which were founde in the citie, and Sopher captayne of the hoste who mustered the people of the lande, and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the middes of the citie. 26 Nebuzar-adan the chiefe stewarde tooke them, and brought them to the king of Babel to Riblah. 27 And the king of Babel smote them, and slewe them in Riblah, in the lande of Hamath: thus Iudah was caried away captiue out of his owne land.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde, and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades: they haue girded them selues with sackecloth: the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Beholde, O Lord, and consider to whome thou hast done thus: shall the women eate their fruite, and children of a spanne long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 5:13-14
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    80%

    13They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

    14The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.

  • Lam 5:11
    80%

    11They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.

  • Isa 3:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

    5The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.

  • Ezek 22:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Beholde, the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood.

    7In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.

  • Hos 5:10
    71%

    10The princes of Iudah were like them that remoue the bounde: therefore will I powre out my wrath vpon them like water.

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.

  • Lam 2:10
    70%

    10The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde, and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades: they haue girded them selues with sackecloth: the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.

  • Isa 1:23
    70%

    23Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.

  • Isa 3:14
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    14The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his people & the princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.

  • Job 12:19-21
    3 verses
    69%

    19He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.

    20He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.

    21He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.

  • Zeph 3:3
    69%

    3Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.

  • Isa 3:12
    69%

    12Children are extorcioners of my people, and women haue rule ouer them: O my people, they that leade thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.

  • Ps 107:40
    69%

    40He powreth cotempt vpon princes, & causeth them to erre in desert places out of the way.

  • Ezek 22:27
    69%

    27Her princes in the mids thereof are like wolues, rauening the praye to shed blood, and to destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre.

  • Nah 3:10
    69%

    10Yet was she caried awaye, and went into captiuitie: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streetes: and they cast lottes for her noble men, and al her myghtie men were bound in chaines.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    69%

    8Wherfore the wrath of the Lord hath bin on Iudah and Ierusalem: and he hath made them a scattering, a desolation, and an hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

  • Hos 7:5
    69%

    5This is the day of our King: the princes haue made him sicke with flagons of wine: he stretcheth out his hand to scorners.

  • Ps 149:8
    68%

    8To binde their Kings in chaines, and their nobles with fetters of yron,

  • Mic 3:9
    68%

    9Heare this, I pray you, ye heades of the house of Iaakob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie.

  • Lam 4:16
    68%

    16The anger of the Lorde hath scattered them, he will no more regard them: they reuerenced not the face of the Priestes, nor had compassion of the Elders.

  • Ps 148:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Kings of the earth and all people, princes and all iudges of the worlde:

    12Yong men and maidens, also olde men and children:

  • Hos 7:3
    68%

    3They make the King glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.

  • Amos 5:11
    68%

    11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

  • Jer 18:21
    68%

    21Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

  • Eccl 10:16
    68%

    16Woe to thee, O lande, when thy King is a childe, and thy princes eate in the morning.

  • Mic 2:9
    68%

    9The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their childre haue ye taken away my glorie continually.

  • Job 31:11
    68%

    11For this is a wickednes, and iniquitie to bee condemned:

  • Jer 5:28
    68%

    28They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.

  • Lam 5:8
    68%

    8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

  • Isa 34:12
    67%

    12The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.

  • Job 29:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8The yong men saw me, & hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

    9The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.

  • Lam 2:20-21
    2 verses
    67%

    20Beholde, O Lord, and consider to whome thou hast done thus: shall the women eate their fruite, and children of a spanne long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord?

    21The yong and the olde lie on the ground in the streetes: my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sworde: thou hast slaine them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed and not spared.

  • Amos 2:7
    67%

    7They gape ouer the head of the poore, in the dust of the earth, and peruert the wayes of the meeke: and a man and his father will goe in to a mayde to dishonour mine holy Name.

  • Ps 12:8
    67%

    8The wicked walke on euery side: when they are exalted, it is a shame for the sonnes of men.

  • Ps 74:5
    67%

    5He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:

  • Deut 22:18
    67%

    18Then the Elders of the citie shal take that man and chastise him,

  • Job 30:12
    67%

    12The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.

  • Hab 1:10
    67%

    10And they shall mocke the Kings, and the princes shalbe a skorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde: for they shall gather dust, and take it.

  • Job 3:15
    67%

    15Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.

  • Ps 83:11
    67%

    11Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.

  • Job 22:9
    67%

    9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.

  • Ezek 23:10
    67%

    10These discouered her shame: they tooke away her sonnes and her daughters, and slewe her with the sworde, and she had an euill name among women: for they had executed iudgement vpon her.