“"Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders." That is, as if upon a hook, so as displaying their riches. As Deuteronomy 28:49-50 states: "The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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In context
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
— Lamentations 5:12 —
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.