Lamentations 5:14
The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
15The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went forth to the gate by the city, And took my seat in the market-place,
Job 30:31My harp also is turned to mourning, And my pipe to notes of grief.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth; The vine languisheth; All that were of a joyful heart do sigh;
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to cause to cease from this place, Before your eyes, in your days, The voice of joy and the voice of mirth, The voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4The ways to Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts; All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins wail, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence; They have cast 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 →