Lamentations 5:14

14 The city gate is empty of wise elders. Music from the young is heard no more.

Lamentations 5:14 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:14

The elders have ceased from the gate
Of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, as the Targum; from the gate of the city, where they used to sit and try causes; but now there was nothing of this kind done: the young men from their music;
vocal and instrumental; the latter is more particularly specified, though both may be intended; neither were any more heard; their harps were hung upon the willows on the banks of Euphrates, which ran through the city of Babylon, ( Psalms 137:1 Psalms 137:2 ) .

Lamentations 5:14 In-Context

12 They hanged our princes by their hands, dishonored our elders.

13 Strapping young men were put to women's work, mere boys forced to do men's work.

14 The city gate is empty of wise elders. Music from the young is heard no more.

15 All the joy is gone from our hearts. Our dances have turned into dirges.

16 The crown of glory has toppled from our head. Woe! Woe! Would that we'd never sinned!