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 do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Job 29:7
when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 30:1
"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,
The young
Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
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 become a waste.
Jeremiah 16:9
For thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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 gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
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 lamp.
Ezekiel 26:13
I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
Revelation 18:22
The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.