THEOSISLamentations 5:14Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
זְקֵנִים֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מִנְּגִינָתָֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 7:34And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
- Isa 24:7The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.
- Isa 24:11There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
- Ezek 26:13And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.
- Lam 1:19Coph. I called for my friends, but they deceived me: my priests and my ancients pined away in the city: while they sought their food, to relieve their souls.
- Lam 1:4Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness.
- Lam 2:10Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
- Rev 18:22And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee: