Parallel Verses
Amplified
Elders are gone from the gate;
Young men from their music.
New American Standard Bible
Young men from their
King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Holman Bible
the young men, their music.
International Standard Version
Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music.
A Conservative Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
American Standard Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
Bible in Basic English
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
Darby Translation
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Julia Smith Translation
Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments.
King James 2000
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments.
Modern King James verseion
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The elders sit no more under the gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music.
NET Bible
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
New Heart English Bible
The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
The Emphasized Bible
Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
Webster
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
World English Bible
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
Youngs Literal Translation
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
13
Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And boys fell [staggering] under loads of wood.
Elders are gone from the gate;
Young men from their music.
The joy of our hearts has ended;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:34
Then I will cause the voices of joy and gladness, and the voices of the bridegroom and the bride to vanish from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem; for the land will become a ruin—a wasteland.
Deuteronomy 16:18
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your cities (gates) 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 [as a city father] in the square,
Job 30:1
Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.
Job 30:31
“Therefore my lyre (harp) is used for [the sound of] mourning,
And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.
Isaiah 3:2-3
The brave man and the warrior [He is also removing],
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 and groan.
Jeremiah 16:9
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I will remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and the shout 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 joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones [grinding meal] and the light of the lamp [to light the night].
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion are in mourning
Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests are groaning,
Her virgins are grieved and suffering,
And she suffers bitterly.
Lamentations 1:19
“I [Jerusalem] called to my lovers (political allies), but they deceived me.
My priests and my elders perished in the city
While they looked for food to restore their strength.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the Daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground keeping silent;
They have thrown dust on their heads,
They have covered themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
Ezekiel 26:13
So I will silence your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.
Revelation 18:22
And the sound of harpists and musicians and flutists and trumpeters will never again be heard in you, and no skilled artisan of any craft will ever again be found in you, and the sound of the millstone [grinding grain] will never again be heard in you [for commerce will no longer flourish, and normal life will cease].