Lamentations 5:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Lam 4:16 : 16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
  • Jer 39:6-7 : 6 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah. 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
  • Jer 52:10-11 : 10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
  • Jer 52:25-27 : 25 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 27 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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    13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

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  • Lam 5:11
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    11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4 I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.

    5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

  • Ezek 22:6-7
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    6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

    7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Hos 5:10
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    10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

  • Lam 2:10
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    10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  • Isa 1:23
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    23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

  • Isa 3:14
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    14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

  • Job 12:19-21
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    19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

    20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

    21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

  • Zeph 3:3
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    3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

  • Isa 3:12
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    12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Ps 107:40
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    40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

  • Nah 3:10
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    10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Hos 7:5
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    5 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

  • Ps 149:8
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    8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

  • Mic 3:9
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    9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.

  • Ps 148:11-12
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    11 kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of the earth;

    12 both young men and maidens; old men and children:

  • Hos 7:3
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    3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Eccl 10:16
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    16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

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    9 You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

  • Job 31:11
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    11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

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    8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Isa 34:12
    67%

    12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

  • Job 29:8-9
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    8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

    9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

  • Lam 2:20-21
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    20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

    21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

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    7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Ps 12:8
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    8 The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Ps 74:5
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    5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

  • Deut 22:18
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    18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

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    12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

  • Hab 1:10
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    10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

  • Job 3:15
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    15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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    11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

  • Job 22:9
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    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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    10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.