But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Lamentations 5:14 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their musick. 更多版本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. English Standard Version 2016 The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music. |
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in 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.
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 candle.
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 be desolate.
I called for my lovers, But they deceived me: My priests and mine elders Gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought their meat To relieve their souls.
The ways of Zion do mourn, Because none come to the solemn feasts: All her gates are desolate: Her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness.
The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit upon the ground, and keep silence: They have cast up dust upon their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem Hang down their heads to the ground.
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 Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;