Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 5:12
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Lamentations5:12
12. hanged ... by their hand--a piece of wanton cruelty invented by the Chaldeans. Grotius translates, "Princes were hung by the hand of the enemy"; hanging was a usual mode of execution (Ge 40:19).
elders--officials (La 4:16).
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