Lamentations 5:14
Elderly have ceased from the gate, || Young men from their song.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13They have taken young men to grind, || And youths have stumbled with wood.
15The joy of our heart has ceased, || Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I go out to the gate by the city, || In a broad place I prepare my seat.
Job 30:31And my harp becomes mourning, || And my pipe the sound of weeping.”
Isaiah 24:7The new wine has mourned, the vine languished, || All the joyful of heart have sighed.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am causing to cease from this place, || Before your eyes, and in your days, || The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, || The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion are mourning, || Without any coming at the appointed time, || All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, || Her virgins are afflicted—and she has bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10Sit on the earth—[the] elderly of Zion’s daughter keep silent, || They have caused dust to go up on their head, || They have girded on sackcloth, || The virgins of Jerusalem have || Put their head down to the earth.
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 →