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

The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.

You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

The young

And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.

For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;