Lamentations 5:14

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; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 2:10; Revelation 18:22

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The gate - The gate was the place for public gatherings, for conversation, and the music of stringed instruments.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The elders have ceased from the (h) gate, the young men from their music. (h) There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 a...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 inha...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 administer...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

From the gate ] corresponding to our public square or park ( Jeremiah 14:2 ).
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 si...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 si...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 ha...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:14 . Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings an...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 overt...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The elders have ceased from the gate, no longer assembling at the customary place for deliberations and judgments, the young men from their music,...

¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 5:14