American Standard Version
"The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. "
— Lamentations 5:14, American Standard Version
“The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.”
“The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.”
“The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.”
“The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.”
“The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.”
“The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.”
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;