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Lamentations 5:11-12

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5:11 They raped 1  women in Zion,

virgins in the towns of Judah.

5:12 Princes were hung by their hands;

elders were mistreated. 2 

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[5:11]  1 tn Heb “ravished.”

[5:12]  2 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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