Lamentations 5:14
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
15The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.
Job 30:31Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
Isaiah 24:7The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Beholde, I wil cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, euen in your dayes the voyce of myrth, and the voyce of gladnes, the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride.
Lamentations 1:4The wayes of Zion lament, because no man commeth to the solemne feastes: all her gates are desolate: her Priests sigh: her virgins are discomfited, and she is in heauinesse.
Lamentations 2:10The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde, and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades: they haue girded them selues with sackecloth: the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades 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 →