Lamentations 5:14
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
Job 30:31My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
Isaiah 24:7The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merryhearted have sighed.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down: her priests sigh: her virgins are in affliction, and she is oppressed with bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, 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 →