Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street,
Job 30:31Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith 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 ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded 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 →