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Lamentations 5:14
14Elders are gone from the gate, 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 are hung up by their hands; elders are dishonored. 13Young men toil at the millstone. Boys stagger under loads of wood. Elders are gone from the gate, young men from their music. 15Joy has ceased in our hearts. Our dance has turned into mourning. 16The crown has fallen from our head. Oy to us, for we have sinned!
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זְקֵנִים֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מִנְּגִינָתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:14
- Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn for no one comes to her moadim. All her gates are desolate. Her kohanim groan, her maidens grieve— she is in bitter anguish.
- Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence. They threw dust on their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
- Deuteronomy 16:18“Judges and officers you are to appoint within all your gates that Adonai your God is giving you, according to your tribes; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
- 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 younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
- Isaiah 3:2mighty man and man of war, judge, and prophet, fortune-teller and elder,
- Job 30:31My harp is for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine fails, the vine wilts, all the merry-hearted sigh.
- Jeremiah 7:34Then I will bring an end, from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, to the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be desolate.”
- Jeremiah 16:9For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “I am about to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
- Jeremiah 25:10“Moreover, I will silence among them the voice of joy 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 26:13I will put an end to the sound of your songs. The sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.
- Revelation 18:22And the sound of harpists and musicians, flautists and trumpeters, shall never be heard in you again! And the craftsman of any craft shall never be found in you again! And the sound of a mill shall 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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