Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Bible References
Elders
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief; and as for her, she is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground.
Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes, that they may judge the people with just judgment.
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,
The young
Job 30:31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
Jeremiah 7:34
And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
Jeremiah 16:9
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Jeremiah 25:10
And I will cause to perish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
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.
Revelation 18:22
and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee, and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee,