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Lamentations 5:14

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their joy.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
The elders 2205
{2205} Prime
זָקֵן
zaqen
{zaw-kane'}
From H2204; old.
have ceased 7673
{7673} Prime
שָׁבַת
shabath
{shaw-bath'}
A primitive root; to repose, that is, desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causatively, figuratively or specifically).
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
from the gate, 8179
{8179} Prime
שַׁעַר
sha`ar
{shah'-ar}
From H8176 in its original sense; an opening, that is, door or gate.
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
the young men 970
{0970} Prime
בָּחוּר
bachuwr
{baw-khoor'}
Participle passive of H0977; properly selected, that is, a youth (often collectively).
from their musick. 5058
{5058} Prime
נְגִינָה
n@giynah
{neg-ee-naw'}
From H5059; properly instrumental music; by implication a stringed instrument; by extension a poem set to music; specifically an epigram.
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Lamentations 5:14

_ _ Aged men in the East meet in the open space round the gate to decide judicial trials and to hold social converse (Job 29:7, Job 29:8).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Lamentations 5:14

The elders have ceased from the (h) gate, the young men from their music.

(h) There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
elders:

Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.
Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Deuteronomy 16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Job 29:7-17 When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! ... And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job 30:1 But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 3:2-3 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, ... The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

the young:

Job 30:31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Isaiah 24:7-11 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. ... [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Jeremiah 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice 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 mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Ezekiel 26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft [he be], shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Dt 16:18. Jb 29:7; 30:1, 31. Is 3:2; 24:7. Jr 7:34; 16:9; 25:10. Lm 1:4, 19; 2:10. Ezk 26:13. Rv 18:22.

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