12 Leaders were hung by their hands;
[a](A)Elders were not respected.
13 Young men [b](B)worked at the grinding mill,
And youths (C)staggered under loads of wood.
14 Elders are absent from the gate,
Young men from their (D)music.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:12 Lit The faces of elders
  2. Lamentations 5:13 Lit carried the

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