Lamentations 5:14

14 Elders have left the city gate; young people stop their music.

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 Officials have been hung up by their hands; elders have been shown no respect.

13 Young men have carried grinding stones; boys have stumbled under loads of wood.

14 Elders have left the city gate; young people stop their music.

15 Joy has left our heart; our dancing has changed into lamentation.

16 The crown has fallen off our head. We are doomed because we have sinned.