Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
15The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
Job 30:31My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith Jehovah 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 joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief; and as for her, she is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head 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 →