King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:14
“The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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