Lamentations 5:14

14 The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make 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 Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.

13 Our young men are forced to grind grain like slaves; boys go staggering under heavy loads of wood.

14 The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.

15 Happiness has gone out of our lives; grief has taken the place of our dances.

16 Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.