Lamentations 5:14

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Summary

Lamentations 5:14

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

Elders

The young

Revelation 18:22

Bible References

Elders

ד DaletThe roads to Zion mourn,
for no one comes to the appointed festivals.
All her gates are deserted;
her priests groan,
her young women grieve,
and she herself is bitter.

י YodThe elders of Daughter 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.

“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

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

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

the hero and warrior,
the judge and prophet,
the fortune-teller and elder,

The young

My lyre is used for mourning
and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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The new wine mourns;
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, for the land will become a desolate waste.

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.

I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them—the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.

The sound of harpists, musicians,
flutists, and trumpeters
will never be heard in you again;
no craftsman of any trade
will ever be found in you again;
the sound of a mill
will never be heard in you again;