Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
15The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.
Job 30:31My harp has been turned into mourning, and my pipes have been turned into a voice of weeping.
Isaiah 24:7The vintage has mourned. The vine has languished. All those who were rejoicing in their hearts have groaned.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will take away from this place, in your sight and in your days, the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4DALETH. The pathways of Zion mourn, because there are none who approach for the solemnity. All her gates are destroyed. Her priests groan. Her virgins are filthy. And she is overwhelmed with bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down 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 →