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Lamentations 5

Lam. 5:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The elders
zaqen (Hebrew #2205)
old
KJV usage: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.
Pronounce: zaw-kane'
Origin: from 2204
have ceased
shabath (Hebrew #7673)
to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
KJV usage: (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.
Pronounce: shaw-bath'
Origin: a primitive root
from the gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
, the young men
bachuwr (Hebrew #970)
participle passive of 977; properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
KJV usage: (choice) young (man), chosen, X hole.
Pronounce: baw-khoor'
Origin: or bachur {baw-khoor'}
from their music
ngiynah (Hebrew #5058)
from 5059; properly, instrumental music; by implication, a stringed instrument; by extension, a poem set to music; specifically, an epigram
KJV usage: stringed instrument, musick, Neginoth (plural), song.
Pronounce: neg-ee-naw'
Origin: or ngiynath (Psa. 61:title) {neg-ee-nath'}
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Cross References

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elders.
Lam. 1:4,19• 4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly:{HR}All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief;{HR}And as for her, she is in bitterness.
 19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:{HR}My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,{HR}While they sought their meat to relieve their souls. (Lam. 1:4,19)
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Lam. 2:10• 10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence:{HR}They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth{HR}The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. (Lam. 2:10)
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Deut. 16:18• 18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes, that they may judge the people with just judgment. (Deut. 16:18)
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Job 29:7‑17• 7When I went out to the gate by the city,{HR}In the open place I established my seat;
 8Youths saw me and hid themselves{HR}And the aged rose — stood up,
 9Princes refrained from words{HR}And laid the hand on their mouth,
 10The voice of nobles was arrested,{HR}And their tongue cleaved to their palate.
 11For the ear heard and praised me,{HR}And an eye saw and testified to me.
 12For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
 13The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
 14Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
 15I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
 16A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched.
 17And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth. (Job 29:7‑17)
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Job 30:1• 1And now at me they laugh, younger in days than I,{HR}Whose fathers I had disdained to set with the dogs of my flock! (Job 30:1)
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Isa. 3:2‑3• 2the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
 3the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the skillful enchanter. (Isa. 3:2‑3)
the young.
Job 30:31• 31And my harp is [turned] to wailing,{HR}And my pipe to the voice of weepers. (Job 30:31)
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Isa. 24:7‑11• 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do sigh.
 8The mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
 9They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
 10The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man entereth in.
 11[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. (Isa. 24:7‑11)
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Jer. 7:34• 34And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste. (Jer. 7:34)
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Jer. 16:9• 9For thus saith Jehovah 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. (Jer. 16:9)
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Jer. 25:10• 10Moreover 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. (Jer. 25:10)
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Ezek. 26:13• 13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harp shall be no more heard. (Ezek. 26:13)
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Rev. 18:22• 22And no voice of harpers and musicians and pipers and trumpeters shall be heard any more in thee; and no craftsman of any craft shall be found any more in thee; and no sound of millstone shall be heard any more in thee; (Rev. 18:22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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* Neginoth, "stringed instruments," as Title, Ps 4, 6, 54, 55, 61, 67, 76. The verb is, "to strike the strings": Isa. 38.20; Lam. 3.14; Hab. 3.19.

W. Kelly Translation

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Aged men have ceased from the gate, young men from their song.