Lamentations 5:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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Referenced Verses

Jer 7:34 : 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 become a waste.
Jer 16:9 : 9 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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.
Jer 25:10 : 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 lamp.
Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lam 1:19 : 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 them food to refresh their souls.
Lam 2:10 : 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they 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.
Ezek 26:13 : 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Rev 18:22 : 22 And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no {G3361} more at all in thee;
Deut 16:18 : 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street, 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood; 9 The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Job 30:1 : 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:31 : 31 Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Isa 3:2-3 : 2 the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; 3 the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.
Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 5:15
83%
15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
Lam 5:12-13
2 verses
79%
12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
Isa 24:7-8
2 verses
77%
7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Eccl 12:3-5
3 verses
73%
3in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,
4and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
5yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Ps 148:12
70%
12Both young men and virgins; Old men and children:
Job 21:11-12
2 verses
70%
11They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
12They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Isa 5:12-13
2 verses
70%
12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
Job 29:7-8
2 verses
70%
7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
8The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
Lam 2:10
69%
10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they 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.
Isa 16:10
69%
10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
Jer 31:13
69%
13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Isa 24:11-12
2 verses
68%
11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isa 14:7
68%
7The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Isa 3:2
67%
2the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
Ezek 26:13
67%
13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Joel 1:12-13
2 verses
67%
12The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.
13Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
Zech 8:4-5
2 verses
67%
4Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Judg 5:11
67%
11Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.
Jer 16:9
67%
9For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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.
Ps 68:25
67%
25The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.
Job 30:31
67%
31Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Lam 2:21
67%
21The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
Matt 11:16
67%
16But whereunto shall I compare this generation? It is like unto sons sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows
Joel 1:9
66%
9The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
Amos 6:5
66%
5that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
Jer 14:2
66%
2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Eccl 11:10
66%
10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Joel 1:16
66%
16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Isa 40:30
66%
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Jer 7:34
66%
34Then 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 become a waste.
Lam 1:4
66%
4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Amos 5:23
66%
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Joel 2:16
66%
16gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Isa 14:4
66%
4that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Ps 78:64
66%
64Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
Jer 25:10
66%
10Moreover 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 lamp.
2 Chr 29:7
66%
7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
Jer 9:21
65%
21For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
Luke 7:32
65%
32They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, {G5213} and ye did not weep.
Num 8:25
65%
25and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,