Lamentations 5:14
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
In Context
13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
15Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
Job 30:31And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
Isaiah 24:7Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted — and she hath bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10Sit on the earth — keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have 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 →