Lamentations 5:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.

Cross References

Job 30:1

“But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:31

My lyre is turned to mourning and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

Jeremiah 16:9

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to banish from this place, in your days and before your eyes, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 25:10

And I will banish from them the sound of mirth and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Jeremiah 7:34

And I will bring to an end the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of the bride and bridegroom in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, for the land shall become a waste.

Lamentations 1:19

I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city while seeking food to revive their lives.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her young girls grieve, and her lot is bitter.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads; they put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 26:13

I will silence the music of your songs; the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals, to whom she offered incense and decked herself with her rings and jewelry and went after her lovers and forgot me, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:18

“You shall appoint judges and officials throughout your tribes, in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall render just decisions for the people.

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpists and entertainers and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more, and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more, and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more,