Lamentations 5:12
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 5
“Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.”Lamentations 5:12
What Does Lamentations 5:12 Mean?
Lamentations 5:12 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 5, verse 12 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 15 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (15)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 5:12 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Leviticus 19:32“Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.”Lamentations 4:16“The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.”Isaiah 47:6“I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.”Isaiah 24:2“And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.”Lamentations 4:2“The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!”Isaiah 3:2“The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,”Jeremiah 39:6“Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.”Jeremiah 52:10“And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.”Jeremiah 52:25“He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.”Lamentations 1:8“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.”Lamentations 1:19“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.”Lamentations 2:6“And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.”Lamentations 2:10“The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.”Lamentations 2:20“Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?”Ezekiel 19:1“Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,”
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