World English Bible
Lamentations 5:14
“The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
12
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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