Lamentations 5:14
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
15The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
Job 30:31And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
Jeremiah 16:9For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Lamentations 2:10The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
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 →