Lamentations 5:14
The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.
15The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:7The wine fayleth, the vine hath no myght, all they that haue ben mery of heart are come to mournyng.
Lamentations 1:4The streetes of Sion mourne, because no man cometh no more to the solempne feastes: all her gates are desolate, her priestes make lamentatio, her maydens are carefull, and she her selfe is in great heauinesse.
Lamentations 2:10The senatours of the daughter Sion sit vpon the grounde in scilence, they haue strawed asshes vpon their heads, and gyrded them selues with sackcloth: the maydens of Hierusalem hang downe their heades to the grounde.
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 →