Lamentations 5:14

14 [Our] older leaders have stopped meeting at the city gate, and [our] young men no longer play 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 [Our] leaders are hung by their hands. [Our] older leaders are shown no respect.

13 [Our] young men work at the mill, and [our] boys stagger under loads of wood.

14 [Our] older leaders have stopped meeting at the city gate, and [our] young men no longer play their music.

15 There is no joy left in our hearts. Our dancing has turned into mourning.

16 The crown has fallen from our head. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us.