But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,\par\tab Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Lamentations 5:14 - American Standard Version 2015 The elders have ceased from the gate,\par\tab The young men from their music. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their musick. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The elders have ceased from [congregating at] the city's gate, the young men from their music. American Standard Version (1901) The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. Common English Bible Elders have left the city gate; young people stop their music. Catholic Public Domain Version The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. |
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,\par\tab Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Therefore is my harp {\i turned} to mourning,\par\tab And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.\par
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.\par
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.\par
I called for my lovers, {\i but} they deceived me:\par\tab My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,\par\tab While they sought them food to refresh their souls.\par
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly;\par\tab All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh:\par\tab Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;\par\tab They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth:\par\tab The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.\par
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.\par
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;