Lamentations 5:14

Louis Segond

Les vieillards ne vont plus à la porte, Les jeunes hommes ont cessé leurs chants.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Les Anciens ont cessé de se trouver aux portes, et les jeunes gens de chanter.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Les vieillards ne se trouvent plus aux portes; les jeunes gens ont abandonné leurs lyres.

Darby's French Translation
Les vieillards ne sont plus assis dans la porte, les jeunes gens n' y chantent plus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

elders: Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:19, Lamentations 2:10, Deuteronomy 16:18, Job 29:7-17, Job 30:1, Isaiah 3:2, Isaiah 3:3

the young: Job 30:31, Isaiah 24:7-11, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 25:10, Ezekiel 26:13, Revelation 18:22

Reciprocal: Ruth 4:2 - the elders Psalms 137:4 - How shall Isaiah 24:11 - all joy

Gill's Notes on the 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 sit and try causes; but now there was nothing of this kind done:

the young men from their music; vocal and instrumental; the latter is more particularly specified, though both may be intended; neither were any more heard; their harps were hung upon the willows on the banks of Euphrates, which ran through the city of Babylon, Psalms 137:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. The elders have ceased from the gate — There is now no more justice administered to the people; they are under military law, or disposed of in every sense according to the caprice of their masters.