Lamentations 5:14

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“The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.”

What this verse means

Read Lamentations 5:14 in the flow of Lamentations5 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Lamentations5 to see the surrounding context.

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BSBPD

“The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Lamentations 5:14 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 16:18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
  2. Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
  3. Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
  4. Job 30:31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
  5. Isaiah 3:2the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
  6. Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
  7. Jeremiah 7:34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
  8. Jeremiah 16:9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
  9. Jeremiah 25:10Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
  10. Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
  11. Lamentations 1:19I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
  12. Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of 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.
  13. Ezekiel 26:13So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
  14. Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
  15. Revelation 18:22And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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