Lamentations 5:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 7:34 : 34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from 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 will be desolate.
  • Jer 16:9 : 9 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease from 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, 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.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
  • Lam 1:19 : 19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders have died in the city, while they sought food to relieve their souls.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have thrown 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 your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 And the sound of harpists, and musicians, and flutists, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of any craft, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you;
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square! 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood. 9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths. 10 The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. 11 When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it approved me; 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper. 13 The blessing of a dying man 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 like a robe and a crown. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case I did not know. 17 And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
  • Job 30:31 : 31 My harp is also turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.
  • Isa 3:2-3 : 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the wise, and the elder, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skilled craftsman, and the eloquent orator.
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up, that no one may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 5:15
    83%

    15The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

  • Lam 5:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12Princes were hung up by their hands; the faces of elders were not honored.

    13They took the young men to grind, and the children stumbled under the loads of wood.

  • Isa 24:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

    8The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

  • Eccl 12:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

    4And the doors are shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he rises up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music are brought low;

    5Also when they are afraid of what is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

  • Ps 148:12
    70%

    12Both young men and maidens, old men and children;

  • Job 21:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

    12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice to the sound of the flute.

  • Isa 5:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12And the harp, and the viol, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of his hands.

    13Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

  • Job 29:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square!

    8The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood.

  • Lam 2:10
    69%

    10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have thrown 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 plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

  • Jer 31:13
    69%

    13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and 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 for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck 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 wise, and the elder,

  • Ezek 26:13
    67%

    13And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

  • Joel 1:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men.

    13Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

  • Zech 8:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4Thus says the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand because of great age.

    5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

  • Judg 5:11
    67%

    11Those who are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of His villages in Israel; then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

  • Jer 16:9
    67%

    9For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease from 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 players on instruments followed after; among them were the maidens playing with timbrels.

  • Job 30:31
    67%

    31My harp is also turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.

  • Lam 2:21
    67%

    21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.

  • Matt 11:16
    67%

    16But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,

  • Joel 1:9
    66%

    9The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

  • Amos 6:5
    66%

    5Who sing to the sound of the harp, and invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

  • Jer 14:2
    66%

    2Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are in mourning on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

  • Eccl 11:10
    66%

    10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.

  • Joel 1:16
    66%

    16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yes, 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 joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land will be desolate.

  • Lam 1:4
    66%

    4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Amos 5:23
    66%

    23Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your lutes.

  • Joel 2:16
    66%

    16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who nurse at the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

  • Isa 14:4
    66%

    4That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has 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, 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.

  • 2 Chr 29:7
    66%

    7They have also shut up the doors of the porch, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

  • Jer 9:21
    65%

    21For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

  • Luke 7:32
    65%

    32They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling to one another, and saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.

  • Num 8:25
    65%

    25And at the age of fifty years, they shall cease performing this work and shall serve no more.