Lamentations 5:14
The elders have gone from the gate,the young men from their music.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13The young men grind at the mill;the boys stagger under loads of wood.
15The joy of our heart has ceased;our dancing is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7when I went forth 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 thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 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 groan:her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.HEY
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in 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.KAPH
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 →