Lamentations 5:14

14 Our elders don't go to the city gate anymore. Our young men have stopped playing 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 princes have been hung up by their hands. No one shows our elders any respect.

13 Our young men are forced to grind grain at the mill. Our boys almost fall down as they carry heavy loads of wood.

14 Our elders don't go to the city gate anymore. Our young men have stopped playing their music.

15 There isn't any joy in our hearts. Our dancing has turned into sobbing.

16 All of our honor is gone. How terrible it is for us! We have sinned.