Lamentations 5:14

Translations

Modern

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Traditional

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Literal

The old men have ceased from the gate; the young men from their music.

Latin

Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.

Original

Hebrew

English

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Notes

Lamentations 5:12–17

These 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).

Lamentations 5:1–22

This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).

Theme notes and profiles

Celebration

Related verses

Jeremiah 7:34
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
Revelation 18:22
And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
Isaiah 24:7–11
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Ezekiel 26:13
So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
Jeremiah 25:10
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Jeremiah 16:9
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
Job 30:1
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Isaiah 3:2–3
…the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
Job 30:31
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
Lamentations 1:19
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

Glossary

Lamentations, Book of Music

Topics

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Lamentations 5:14

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