Lamentations 5:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:16 : 16 The face of Jehovah hath divided them, He doth not add to behold them, The face of priests they have not lifted up, Elders they have not favoured.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,
  • Jer 39:6-7 : 6 And the king of Babylon slaughtereth the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah, before his eyes, yea, all the freemen of Judah hath the king of Babylon slaughtered. 7 And the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him with brazen fetters, to bring him in to Babylon.
  • Jer 52:10-11 : 10 And the king of Babylon slaughtereth the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also all the princes of Judah hath he slaughtered in Riblah; 11 and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and he bindeth him in brazen fetters, and the king of Babylon bringeth him to Babylon, and putteth him in the house of inspection unto the day of his death.
  • Jer 52:25-27 : 25 and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch, who hath been inspector over the men of war, and seven men of those seeing the king's face, who have been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land, who are found in the midst of the city; 26 and Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, taketh them, and bringeth them unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, 27 and the king of Babylon smiteth them, and putteth them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removeth Judah from off its own ground.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 Sit on the earth -- keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 5:13-14
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    80%

    13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

    14The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

  • Lam 5:11
    80%

    11Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    74%

    4And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

    5And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

  • Ezek 22:6-7
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    73%

    6Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.

    7Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

  • Hos 5:10
    71%

    10Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Lam 2:10
    70%

    10Sit on the earth -- keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem.

  • Isa 1:23
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    23Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

  • Isa 3:14
    70%

    14Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor `is' in your houses.

  • Job 12:19-21
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    69%

    19Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

    20Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

    21Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

  • Zeph 3:3
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    3Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

  • Isa 3:12
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    12My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

  • Ps 107:40
    69%

    40He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

  • Nah 3:10
    69%

    10Even she doth become an exile, She hath gone into captivity, Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces At the top of all out-places, And for her honoured ones they cast a lot, And all her great ones have been bound in fetters.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    69%

    8and the wrath of Jehovah is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He giveth them for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as ye are seeing with your eyes.

  • Hos 7:5
    69%

    5A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves `with' the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

  • Ps 149:8
    68%

    8To bind their kings with chains, And their honoured ones with fetters of iron,

  • Mic 3:9
    68%

    9Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

  • Lam 4:16
    68%

    16The face of Jehovah hath divided them, He doth not add to behold them, The face of priests they have not lifted up, Elders they have not favoured.

  • Ps 148:11-12
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    68%

    11Kings of earth, and all peoples, Chiefs, and all judges of earth,

    12Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,

  • Hos 7:3
    68%

    3With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

  • Amos 5:11
    68%

    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

  • Jer 18:21
    68%

    21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

  • Eccl 10:16
    68%

    16Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

  • Mic 2:9
    68%

    9The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.

  • Job 31:11
    68%

    11For it `is' a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

  • Jer 5:28
    68%

    28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

  • Lam 5:8
    68%

    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

  • Isa 34:12
    67%

    12`To' the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

  • Job 29:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.

    9Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

  • Lam 2:20-21
    2 verses
    67%

    20See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

    21Lain on the earth `in' out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered -- Thou hast not pitied.

  • Amos 2:7
    67%

    7Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

  • Ps 12:8
    67%

    8Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!

  • Ps 74:5
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    5He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.

  • Deut 22:18
    67%

    18`And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him,

  • Job 30:12
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    12On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

  • Hab 1:10
    67%

    10And at kings it doth scoff, And princes `are' a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it.

  • Job 3:15
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    15Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses `with' silver.

  • Ps 83:11
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    11Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,

  • Job 22:9
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    9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

  • Ezek 23:10
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    10They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her.