Lamentations 5:14

14 senes de portis defecerunt iuvenes de choro psallentium

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 principes manu suspensi sunt facies senum non erubuerunt

13 adulescentibus inpudice abusi sunt et pueri in ligno corruerunt

14 senes de portis defecerunt iuvenes de choro psallentium

15 defecit gaudium cordis nostri versus est in luctu chorus noster

16 cecidit corona capitis nostri vae nobis quia peccavimus