Lamentations 5:14 “The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their m…”

Lamentations 5:14

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

Bible in Basic English

The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

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Cross references

“elders”

Lamentations 1:4 Lamentations 1:19 Lamentations 2:10 Deuteronomy 16:18 Job 29:7–17 Job 30:1

Lamentations 1:4 · BSB

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

Lamentations 1:19 · BSB

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.

Lamentations 2:10 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 16:18 · BSB

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.

Job 29:7–17 · BSB

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Job 30:1 · BSB

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

“the young”

Jeremiah 7:34 Isaiah 24:7–11 Ezekiel 26:13 Revelation 18:22 Job 30:31 Jeremiah 16:9

Jeremiah 7:34 · BSB

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.”

Isaiah 24:7–11 · BSB

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Ezekiel 26:13 · BSB

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

Revelation 18:22 · BSB

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.

Job 30:31 · BSB

My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

Jeremiah 16:9 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

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