The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the
So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackclo
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, he
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of t
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for