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Lamentations 5:12

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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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  1. Lamentations 5:10

    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

  2. Lamentations 5:11

    They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

  3. Lamentations 5:13

    They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

  4. Lamentations 5:14

    The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.