NET Bible
"The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music."
— Lamentations 5:14, NET Bible
“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 have ceased from the gate, The young men from 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 raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.