Lamentations 5:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

New Living Translation
Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.

English Standard Version
Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Berean Study Bible
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

New American Standard Bible
Leaders were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

NASB 1995
Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

NASB 1977
Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

Amplified Bible
Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

Christian Standard Bible
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

Contemporary English Version
Our rulers are strung up by their arms, and our nation's advisors are treated shamefully.

Good News Translation
Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Our] leaders are hung by their hands. [Our] older leaders are shown no respect.

International Standard Version
Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.

NET Bible
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

New King James Version
Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

King James 2000 Bible
Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.

New Heart English Bible
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.

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

American King James Version
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

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

A Faithful Version
Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored.

Darby Bible Translation
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

English Revised Version
Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Webster's Bible Translation
Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The prynces are hanged vp with the honde of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Princes have been hanged by their hand, "" Elderly faces have not been honored.

Young's Literal Translation
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

Smith's Literal Translation
Chiefs were hung by their hand: the faces of old men were not honored.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Princes were hanged by their hands and they dishonored the persons of the Elders

Lamsa Bible
Princes are hanged up by their hands; the faces of the elders are not honored.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Princes are hanged up by their hand; The faces of elders are not honoured.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
















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