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Lamentations 5:12

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5:12 Princes were hung by their hands;

elders were mistreated. 1 

1 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.



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