Lamentations 5:14

World English Bible (2000)

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 says Yahweh of Armies, 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 my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
  • Ezek 26:13 : 13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street. 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. 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 stuck to the roof of their mouth. 11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him, 13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on 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 to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out. 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of 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 put with my sheep dogs.
  • Job 30:31 : 31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
  • Isa 3:2-3 : 2 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder, 3 the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The confused 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.

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

  • Lam 5:12-13
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    79%

    12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

    13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

  • Isa 24:7-8
    2 verses
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    7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

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

  • Eccl 12:3-5
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    73%

    3 in 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 who look out of the windows are darkened,

    4 and 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;

    5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

  • Ps 148:12
    70%

    12 both young men and maidens; old men and children:

  • Job 21:11-12
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    70%

    11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

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

  • Isa 5:12-13
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    70%

    12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

    13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

  • Job 29:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

    8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

  • Lam 2:10
    69%

    10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  • Isa 16:10
    69%

    10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

  • Jer 31:13
    69%

    13 Then 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%

    11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

    12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • Isa 14:7
    68%

    7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

  • Isa 3:2
    67%

    2 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

  • Ezek 26:13
    67%

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

  • Joel 1:12-13
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    67%

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

    13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

  • Zech 8:4-5
    2 verses
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    4 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

    5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."

  • Judg 5:11
    67%

    11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. "Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

  • Jer 16:9
    67%

    9 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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%

    25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

  • Job 30:31
    67%

    31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

  • Lam 2:21
    67%

    21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

  • Matt 11:16
    67%

    16 "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions

  • Joel 1:9
    66%

    9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.

  • Amos 6:5
    66%

    5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

  • Jer 14:2
    66%

    2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

  • Eccl 11:10
    66%

    10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

  • Joel 1:16
    66%

    16 Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

  • Isa 40:30
    66%

    30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

  • Jer 7:34
    66%

    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.

  • Lam 1:4
    66%

    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.

  • Amos 5:23
    66%

    23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

  • Joel 2:16
    66%

    16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.

  • Isa 14:4
    66%

    4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

  • Ps 78:64
    66%

    64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

  • Jer 25:10
    66%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 29:7
    66%

    7 Also 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 to the God of Israel.

  • Jer 9:21
    65%

    21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

  • Luke 7:32
    65%

    32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

  • Num 8:25
    65%

    25 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,