Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 30:31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
Jeremiah 16:9For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed 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 →