Lamentations 5:12

Isaiah 47:6; Jeremiah 39:6; Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 52:10; Jeremiah 52:11; Jeremiah 52:25-27; Lamentations 2:10; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:16

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After the princes had been put to death their bodies were hung up by the hand to expose them to public contumely. Old age, again, no more availed t...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Princes were hung up by (f) their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. (f) That is, by the enemies hand.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

faces. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, for the whole person.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The beginning of the verse may be explained in two ways. All render thus, “The princes have been slain by their hand,” that is, of their enemie...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Princes are hanged up by their hand - It is very probable that this was a...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

By their hand— That is to say, by the hands of the Chaldeans.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Princes are hanged up by their hand - a piece of wanton cruelty i...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hanged up by their hand ] The Assyrian custom was to impale bodies after death in order to expose them to the most utter contempt possible ( Deutero...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Princes are hanged... — The words point to the shameless exposure of the bodies of the dead. (Comp. the treatment of Saul and his sons in 1 Samuel...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11-18 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Princes are hanged up by their hand ,.... According to some, as Aben Ezra observes, by the hand of the servants before mentioned; however, by the ha...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Ver. 12. Princes are hanged up by the hand. ] Made to die a dog's deat...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Princes are hanged up by their hand By the hand of their enemies. They took the young men to grind To grind at the mill was the common employment...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Most probably by the enemies hands, though some would have it by their hands, intimating a more sharp and lingering death. Hanging was an ancient way...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Princes were hanged up by their hand, The faces of elders were not honoured. The cruelty of conquerors was well known. The ‘princes' may well have...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:10 . The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Ou...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

The elders have ceased from the gate. The seat of justice overthrown 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overt...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Princes are hanged up by their hand, the disgrace of their slaughter thus being intensified by their suspension from the accursed tree; the faces of...

¹² Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 5:12