Lamentations 5:14 meaning and explanation
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Lamentations 5:14, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the grieving community of Jerusalem after the city's destruction, and here they name two absences that together mark a whole society's collapse. The city gate was where elders sat to judge cases and conduct business, so their departure means justice and public order have ceased.
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