New English Translation
Lamentations 5:14
14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing 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 hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. 13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. 15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning. 16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
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זְקֵנִים֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מִנְּגִינָתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 5:14
- Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish! ה (He)
- Lamentations 2:10The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem’s young women stare down at the ground. כ (Kaf)
- Deuteronomy 16:18You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.
- Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,
- Job 30:1“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
- Isaiah 3:2the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,
- Job 30:31My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.
- Jeremiah 7:34I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland.”
- Jeremiah 16:9For I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.’”
- Jeremiah 25:10I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.
- Ezekiel 26:13I will silence the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
- Revelation 18:22And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again.
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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