Lamentations 5:14
The elders have abandoned their places at the city gate; the young men have given up playing their music.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13Young men are forced to work at hand-mills; boys stagger under bundles of wood.
15There's no more happiness for us; our dancing has turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square.
Job 30:31My lyre only plays sad songs, and my pipe is the voice of those who weep.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.
Jeremiah 16:9This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am going to put a stop right here, while you watch, to any sounds of celebration and joy, the happy voices of the groom and bride.
Lamentations 1:4Even the roads to Zion are in mourning because no one travels on them to go to the religious festivals. All her gates are empty. Her priests groan in sadness. Her girls are suffering. She herself is in bitter distress.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust over their heads and put on clothes made of sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed 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 →