Lamentations 5:14
“The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.”
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Cross-References
“And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.”
“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”
“There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.”
“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.”
“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.”