Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.
15Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went out to the gate close by the city, when in the open place I established my seat:
Job 30:31And thus is changed to mourning my harp, and my pipe to the sound of weeping.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted sigh.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus hath said 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 gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4The ways to Zion are in mourning, because none come to the solemn feasts; all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh; her virgins moan, and she suffereth herself from bitter grief.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their head; they have girt themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem have brought down low 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 →