Lamentations 5:12 Cross References

Lamentations 5:12

12: Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and the old men are treated with contempt.

Lamentations 4:16

  1. The LORD himself has scattered them, and he no longer helps them. The priests and leaders are no longer honored and respected.

Isaiah 47:6

  1. For I was angry with my chosen people and began their punishment by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You have forced even the elderly to carry heavy burdens.

Jeremiah 52:10

  1. There at Riblah, the king of Babylon made Zedekiah watch as all his sons were killed; they also killed all the other leaders of Judah.
  2. Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon. Zedekiah remained there in prison for the rest of his life.

Jeremiah 39:6

  1. He made Zedekiah watch as they killed his sons and all the nobles of Judah.
  2. Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in chains, and sent him away to exile in Babylon.

Lamentations 2:10

  1. The leaders of Jerusalem sit on the ground in silence, clothed in sackcloth. They throw dust on their heads in sorrow and despair. The young women of Jerusalem hang their heads in shame.

Jeremiah 52:25

  1. And of the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer of the Judean army, seven of the king's personal advisers, the army commander's chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment, and sixty other citizens.
  2. Nebuzaradan the commander took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
  3. And there at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon had them all put to death. So the people of Judah were sent into exile from their land.

Lamentations 2:20

  1. "O LORD, think about this!" Jerusalem cries. "You are doing this to your own people! Should mothers eat their little children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets die within the Lord's Temple?
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