Lamentations 5 · Verse 14

Lamentations 5:14

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lamentations 5:14, King James Version

Lamentations 5:14 in other translations

BSBThe elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
WEBThe elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
ASVThe elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
YLTThe aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
DARBYThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
BBEThe old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
WebsterThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

What does Lamentations 5:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. 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).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16

The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour. Verses 1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned!…

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Lamentations 5:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זְקֵנִים֙ze.ke.Nimold [men]H2205
מִשַּׁ֣עַרmi.Sha.'arfrom [the] gateH8179
שָׁבָ֔תוּsha.Va.tuthey have ceasedH7673
בַּחוּרִ֖יםba.chu.Rimyoung menH970
מִנְּגִינָתָֽם\׃mi.ne.gi.na.Tamfrom music theirH5058

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 5:14

  • Jeremiah 7:34

    Then 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 be desolate.

  • Isaiah 24:7-11

    The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. …

  • Revelation 18:22

    And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

  • Ezekiel 26:13

    And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Lamentations 1:19

    I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

  • Jeremiah 25:10

    Moreover 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 candle.

  • Job 30:31

    My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

  • Job 29:7-17

    When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. …

  • Jeremiah 16:9

    For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in 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.

  • Lamentations 2:10

    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and 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.

  • Job 30:1

    But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
elders.
1:4,19; 2:10; De 16:18; Job 29:7-17; 30:1; Isa 3:2,3
the young.
Job 30:31; Isa 24:7-11; Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; Eze 26:13; Re 18:22

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Context

  • Lamentations 5:13

    They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

  • Lamentations 5:14

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

  • Lamentations 5:15

    The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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Lamentations 5:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Los ancianos cesaron de la puerta, los mancebos de sus canciones.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Les vieillards ne sont plus assis dans la porte, les jeunes gens n’y chantent plus.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Die Alten bleiben fern vom Tore, die Jünglinge von ihrem Saitenspiel.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.