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Lamentations 5:10-12
New English Translation
Lamentations 5:10-12
New English Translation
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven
due to a fever from hunger.[a]
11 They raped[b] women in Zion,
virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes were hung by their hands;
elders were mistreated.[c]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 5:10 tn Heb “because of the burning heat of famine.”
- Lamentations 5:11 tn Heb “ravished.”
- Lamentations 5:12 tn Heb “elders were shown no respect.” The phrase “shown no respect” is an example of tapeinosis, a figurative expression of understatement: to show no respect to elders = to terribly mistreat elders.
Lamentations 5:10-12
King James Version
Lamentations 5:10-12
King James Version
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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Lamentations 5:10-12
New International Version
Lamentations 5:10-12
New International Version
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