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Douay-Rheims Bible

Lamentations 5:14

The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Patriotism;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - War;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Music;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Neginah, Neginoth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gate;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Jerusalem;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ate;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Age;   Buying;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gate;   Harp and Lyre;   Music and Musical Instruments;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The elders have left the city gate,the young men, their music.
Hebrew Names Version
The Zakenim have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
King James Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
English Standard Version
The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.
New American Standard Bible
Elders are absent from the gate, Young men from their music.
New Century Version
The elders no longer sit at the city gates; the young men no longer sing.
Amplified Bible
Elders are gone from the gate; Young men from their music.
World English Bible
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music.
Legacy Standard Bible
Elders have ceased from being at the gate,Young men from their music.
Berean Standard Bible
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Contemporary English Version
Our leaders are not allowed to decide cases in court, and young people no longer play music.
Complete Jewish Bible
The old men have deserted the city gate, the young men have given up their music.
Darby Translation
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Easy-to-Read Version
The elders no longer sit at the gates of the city. The young men no longer make music.
George Lamsa Translation
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their joy.
Good News Translation
The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.
Lexham English Bible
Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments.
Literal Translation
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The elders syt no more vnder the gates, and the yonge men vse nomore playenge of Musick.
American Standard Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
Bible in Basic English
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
King James Version (1611)
The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
English Revised Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Elde men failiden fro yatis; yonge men failiden of the queer of singeris.
Update Bible Version
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
Webster's Bible Translation
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
New English Translation
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
New King James Version
The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.
New Living Translation
The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.
New Life Bible
The old men have left the city gate. Young men have stopped playing their music.
New Revised Standard
The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
Revised Standard Version
The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
Young's Literal Translation
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

Contextual Overview

1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. 3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. 5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us. 6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand. 9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. 10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

elders: Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:19, Lamentations 2:10, Deuteronomy 16:18, Job 29:7-17, Job 30:1, Isaiah 3:2, Isaiah 3:3

the young: Job 30:31, Isaiah 24:7-11, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 25:10, Ezekiel 26:13, Revelation 18:22

Reciprocal: Ruth 4:2 - the elders Psalms 137:4 - How shall Isaiah 24:11 - all joy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The elders have ceased from the gate,.... Of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, as the Targum; from the gate of the city, where they used to sit and try causes; but now there was nothing of this kind done:

the young men from their music; vocal and instrumental; the latter is more particularly specified, though both may be intended; neither were any more heard; their harps were hung upon the willows on the banks of Euphrates, which ran through the city of Babylon, Psalms 137:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The gate - The gate was the place for public gatherings, for conversation, and the music of stringed instruments.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. The elders have ceased from the gate — There is now no more justice administered to the people; they are under military law, or disposed of in every sense according to the caprice of their masters.


 
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