Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 children have stumbled under the wood.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the broad place,
Job 30:31Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith the LORD 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 gladness, 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 afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10They sit upon the ground, and keep silence, the elders of the daughter of Zion; they have cast up dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth; 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 →