Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 30:31Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the brid
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust upon their heads. They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →