Lamentations 5:12 Cross References - Rotherham

¹² Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.

⁶ I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, . . . Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy, thy yoke.

⁶ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah, before his eyes,––and, all the nobles of Judah, did the king of Babylon slay; ⁷ and, the eyes of Zedekiah, did he put out, and bound him with fetters of bronze, to bring him into Babylon.

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew, the sons of Zedekiah, before his eyes,––moreover also, all the princes of Judah, slew he in Riblah; ¹¹ and, the eyes of Zedekiah, put he out,––and bound him with fetters of bronze, and the king of Babylon took, him to Babylon, and put him in prison––until the day of his death.

²⁵ and, out of the city, took he one eunuch who was in charge over the men of war, and seven men of them who used to watch the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the prince of the host, who used to muster the people of the land,––and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. ²⁶ And, when Nebuzaradan, chief the royal executioners, had taken, them, and brought them unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah, ²⁷ then did the king of Babylon smite, them and put them to death at Riblah, in the land of Hamath,––thus carried he Judah captive, away from off their own soil.

¹⁰ Seated on the ground, in silence, are the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have lifted up dust on their head, have girded themselves with sackcloth,––Bowed down to the ground is the head, of the virgins of Jerusalem.

²⁰ See, O Yahweh, and do consider, to whom thou hast acted thus severely,––Will women, devour, their own fruit––the children they have dandled? Shall priest and prophet, be slain in the sanctuary of My Lord?

¹⁶ The face of Yahweh, hath scattered them, He will look them out no more: The persons of the priests, they have not respected, To the elders, have they shown no favour.