American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:14
14The elders have ceased from the gate,The young men from their music.
Lamentations 5:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
- New International Version (NIV)The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.
Context of Lamentations 5:14
12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. 13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. 15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. 16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
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זְקֵנִים֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מִנְּגִינָתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:14
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
- Job 29:7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
- Job 30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
- Isaiah 3:2the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
- Job 30:31Therefore is my harpturnedto mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
- Jeremiah 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
- Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith Jehovah 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.
- Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- Ezekiel 26:13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
- Revelation 18:22And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The elders have ceased from the gate - There is now no more justice administered to the people; they are under military law, or disposed of in every sense according to the caprice of their masters.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14The gate - The gate was the place for public gatherings, for conversation, and the music of stringed instruments.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-17These terrible things happened because the people had sinned (see Isaiah 24:7–12; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 13:18; Jeremiah 25:10–11; Amos 8:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Aged men in the East meet in the open space round the gate to decide judicial trials and to hold social converse (Job 29:7, 8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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