Lamentations 5:14
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
Job 30:31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Jeremiah 16:9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed 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 →