Lamentations 5:14

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.

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  • Jer 7:34 : 34 And as for the voyce of mirth and gladnesse of the cities of Iuda and Hierusalem, the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride, I wyll make them ceasse: for the lande shalbe desolate.
  • Jer 16:9 : 9 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: Beholde, I shall take away out of this place the voyce of mirth and gladnesse, the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride, yea and that in your dayes, that ye may see it.
  • Jer 25:10 : 10 Moreouer, I wyll take from them the voyce of gladnesse and solace, the voyce of the bridegrome and the bride, the noyse of the milstones, and the light of the cressets.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The streetes of Sion mourne, because no man cometh no more to the solempne feastes: all her gates are desolate, her priestes make lamentatio, her maydens are carefull, and she her selfe is in great heauinesse.
  • Lam 1:19 : 19 I called for my louers, but they beguiled me, for my priestes and counsaylers, but they perished, euen whyle they sought for meate to saue their lyues.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 The senatours of the daughter Sion sit vpon the grounde in scilence, they haue strawed asshes vpon their heads, and gyrded them selues with sackcloth: the maydens of Hierusalem hang downe their heades to the grounde.
  • Ezek 26:13 : 13 Thus will I cause the sounde of thy songues to ceasse, and the noyse of thy harpes shall no more be hearde.
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 And the voyce of harpers, and musitions, & of pypers, and trumpetters, shall be heard no more in thee, and no craftes man, of whatsoeuer craft he be, shall be founde any more in thee, and the sounde of a myll shall be heard no more in thee:
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities which the Lorde thy God geueth thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall iudge the people with iust iudgement.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete: 8 The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp. 9 The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth: 10 The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. 11 When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me: 12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym. 13 The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14 And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne. 15 I was an eye to the blinde, and a foote to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 But nowe they that are younger then I haue me in derision: yea euen they whose fathers I would haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my cattell.
  • Job 30:31 : 31 My harpe is turned to mourning, and my organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
  • Isa 3:2-3 : 2 The captayne and the souldiour, the iudge and the prophete, the prudent and the aged man, 3 The captayne of fiftie & the honorable, the senatour, the cunnyng artificer, and the eloquent oratour.
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The wine fayleth, the vine hath no myght, all they that haue ben mery of heart are come to mournyng. 8 The myrth of tabrettes is layde downe, the noyse of such as haue made mery is ceassed, the ioy at the harpe is at an ende. 9 They shall drynke no more wine with mirth, strong drynke shalbe bytter to them that drinke it. 10 The citie of vanitie is broken downe, euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in. 11 In the streetes is there a crying because of wine, all cheare is vanished away, the myrth of the lande is gone.

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    15The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.

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    7The wine fayleth, the vine hath no myght, all they that haue ben mery of heart are come to mournyng.

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  • Eccl 12:3-5
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    3When the kepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bowe them selues, when the milners stand styll because they be so fewe, and when the sight of the windowes shall waxe dimme:

    4When the doores in the streetes shalbe shut, and when the voyce of the milner shalbe layde downe, when men shall ryse vp at the voyce of the byrde, and when all the daughters of musicke shalbe brought lowe:

    5When men shall feare in hye places, and be afraide in the streetes, when the Almonde tree shall florishe and be laden with the grashopper, and when all lust shal passe: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streetes.

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    12Young men and maydens, olde men with children,

  • Job 21:11-12
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    12In their feastes are harpes and lutes, tabrettes and pipes, and wine: but they regarde not the worke of the Lord, and consider not the operatio of his handes.

    13Therfore commeth my folke into captiuitie, because they haue no vnderstandyng: Their glorie is famished with hunger, and their multitude dryed vp with thirst.

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    7When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete:

    8The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp.

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    10The senatours of the daughter Sion sit vpon the grounde in scilence, they haue strawed asshes vpon their heads, and gyrded them selues with sackcloth: the maydens of Hierusalem hang downe their heades to the grounde.

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    10The mirth and cheare is taken away out of the plentifull fielde, and in the vineyardes there shalbe no ioy nor gladnesse: The treader shall treade out no wine in their presses, the song of their mery cheare haue I layde downe.

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    13Then shall the mayde reioyce in the daunce, yea both young and olde folkes: for I wyll turne their sorowe into gladnesse, and wyll comfort them from their sorowes, and make them ioyfull.

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    11In the streetes is there a crying because of wine, all cheare is vanished away, the myrth of the lande is gone.

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    13Thus will I cause the sounde of thy songues to ceasse, and the noyse of thy harpes shall no more be hearde.

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    13Girde your selues and lament O ye priestes, howle ye out ye ministers of the aulter, come and lye all night in sackcloth ye seruauntes of my God: for the meate and drynke offerynges are taken away from the house of your God.

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    4Thus saith the lord of hoastes: There shal yet olde men & olde women dwel againe in the streetes of Hierusalem: yea, & such as go with staues in their handes for very age.

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    25The singers go before, the minstrelles folowe after: in the myddest are the damselles playing with the timbrelles.

  • Job 30:31
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    31My harpe is turned to mourning, and my organs into the voyce of them that weepe.

  • Lam 2:21
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    21Young and olde lye thorowe the streetes vpon the grounde, my maydens and young men are slayne with the sworde, whom thou in the day of thy wrathfull indignation hast put to death, yea euen thou hast put them to death, and not spared them.

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    9The meate offeryng and drinke offeryng is cut of from the house of the Lorde, the priestes I meane the Lordes ministers mourne.

  • Amos 6:5
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    5They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid.

  • Jer 14:2
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    2Iuda hath mourned, his gates are desolate, they are brought to heauinesse, euen vnto the grounde, and the crye of Hierusalem goeth vp.

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    10Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remoue euill from thy body: for chyldhood and youth is but vanitie.

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    16Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, yea mirth and ioy from the house of our God?

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    30Children are weerie and faint, and the strongest men fall:

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    34And as for the voyce of mirth and gladnesse of the cities of Iuda and Hierusalem, the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride, I wyll make them ceasse: for the lande shalbe desolate.

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    4The streetes of Sion mourne, because no man cometh no more to the solempne feastes: all her gates are desolate, her priestes make lamentatio, her maydens are carefull, and she her selfe is in great heauinesse.

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    23Take thou away from me the multitude of thy songues, for I will not heare the melodie of thy violes.

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    25And from the age of fiftie yeres, they shall ceasse waytyng vpon the seruice therof, and shall serue no more: