Lamentations 5:14
And the elders ceased from the gate, 1 The chosen men ceased from their music. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, 1 And the youths fainted under the wood. 1
15The joy of our heart has ceased; 1 Our dance is turned into mourning. 1
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went forth early in the city, 1 And the seat was placed for me in the streets. 1
Job 30:31My harp also has been turned into mourning, 1 And my song into my weeping.
Isaiah 24:7The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will make to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion mourn, 1 Because there are none that come to the feast: 1 All her gates are ruined: 1 Her priests groan, 1 Her virgins are led captive, 1 And she is in bitterness in herself. 1
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion 1 Have sat upon the ground, 1 They have kept silence: 1 They have cast up dust upon their heads; 1 They have girded themselves with sackcloth: 1 They have brought down to the ground 1 The chief virgins in Jerusalem. 1
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 →