Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. The final lament is a communal prayer that lacks the alphabetic acrostic of the previous four poems. The community cries for God to remember: their inheritance has been turned over to strangers, women have been violated, and old men sit …
Outras Traduções
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
Referências Cruzadas
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy …
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have …
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, …