Lamentations 5:14

The elders have left the city gate, 1 and the young men have left their music. 1

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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

In Context

13Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone, 1 and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. 1

15The joy of our heart has ceased 1 and our dancing has turned into mourning. 1

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Cross References

Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate, 1 when I sat in my place in the city square, 1

Job 30:31Therefore my harp is tuned for songs of mourning, 1 my flute for the singing of those who wail.

Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers, all the merry-hearted groan. 1

Jeremiah 16:9For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this, 'See, before your eyes, in your days and in this place, I am about to put an end to the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the sound of the groom and the sound of the bride.'

Lamentations 1:4The roads of Zion mourn because none come to the appointed feasts. 1 All her gates are desolate. Her priests groan. 1 Her virgins are sorrowful and she herself is in complete distress. 1

Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. 1 They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. 1 The virgins of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 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 →

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