Lamentations 5:14

A Request For Mercy

¹³ Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And youths stumbled under loads of wood.
¹⁴ Elders are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.
¹⁵ The joy of our hearts has ceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Chosen Ones

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Chosen One

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Jeremiah 7:34

Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

Deuteronomy 16:18

“You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Job 29:7-17

“When I went out to the gate of the city,
When I took my seat in the square,

Job 30:1

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:31

“Therefore my harp is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

Isaiah 3:2-3

The mighty man and the warrior,
The judge and the prophet,
The diviner and the elder,

Isaiah 24:7-11

The new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the merry-hearted sigh.

Jeremiah 16:9

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover, I will take from 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.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads of Zion are in mourning
Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests are groaning,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she herself is bitter.

Lamentations 1:19

“I called to my lovers, but they deceived me;
My priests and my elders perished in the city
While they sought food to restore their strength themselves.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground, they are silent.
They have thrown dust on their heads;
They have girded themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 26:13

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

Revelation 18:22

And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters will not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft will be found in you any longer; and the sound of a mill will not be heard in you any longer;