Lamentations 5:14
Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
15Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went out to the gate unto the city, in the open place, made ready my seat,
Job 30:31Thus is attuned to mourning—my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.
Isaiah 24:7Mourneth the new wine. Withereth the vine,—Sighing are all the merryhearted:
Jeremiah 16:9For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! causing to cease out of this place, Before your eyes, And in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride,
Lamentations 1:4The ways to Zion, are mourning, because none come to her appointed feasts, All her gates, are desolate, her priests, are sighing,—her virgins, are grieved, and, she, it is bitter for her.
Lamentations 2:10Seated on the ground, in silence, are the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have lifted up dust on their head, have girded themselves with sackcloth,—Bowed down to the ground is the head, of the virgins of Jerusalem.
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 →