“ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. ”
The gate - The gate was the place for public gatherings, for conversation, and the music of stringed instruments.
The elders have ceased from the (h) gate, the young men from their music. (h) There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
Here the Prophet briefly shews that the city was reduced to ruins, so that nothing but desolation could be seen there. For when cities are inhabited, judges sit at the gate and young men exerci...
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. The elders have ceased from the gate - There is now no more justice administered to the people; they are under military law, or...
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. The elders have ceased from the gate. Aged men in the East meet in the open space round the gate to decide judicial tria...
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
Have ceased from the gate. — The gate in an Eastern city was the natural place of meeting for the elder citizens as for counsel and judgment ( Ruth 4:1 ; Joshua 20:4 ), and also for social convers...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11-18 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The pr...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
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 thi...
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. Ver. 14. The elders have ceased from the gate. ] Where they were wont to sit, Gen 34:20 to judge between party and party....
Princes are hanged up by their hand By the hand of their enemies. They took the young men to grind To grind at the mill was the common employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5 . The children fell unde...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
Our grave men were wont to sit and execute judgment in the gates, but now there is no such thing. Our young men were wont to play on music, and to have their merry meetings, but they are also ceased....
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. The area within and around the gate of the city was where much local activity took place. It was often the only place in the ci...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:14 . Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings and social pastimes. The elders ceased from [freque...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
The elders have ceased from the gate. The seat of justice overthrown 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (a) It b...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
Deuteronomy 16:18 ; Ezekiel 26:13 ; Isaiah 24:7-11 ; Isaiah 3:2 ; Isaiah 3:3 ; Jeremiah 16:9 ; Jeremiah 25:10 ; Jeremiah 7:34 ; Job 29:7-17 ; Job 30:1 ; Job 30:31 ; Lamentations 1:19 ; L...