Cross references

Lamentations 5:14

The elders have left the city gate;

the young men have stopped their music.

Lamentations 5:14 BSB

Lamentations 5:14 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 7:34 (5 votes) and Isaiah 24:7–11 (3 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Deuteronomy 16 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Lamentations 5:14 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

  2. The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. …

  3. So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

  4. And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.

  5. You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

  6. When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet. …

  7. Job 30:12 votes

    “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

  8. Job 30:312 votes

    My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  9. the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder, the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

  10. 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 and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

  11. Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

  12. The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Which verses point to Lamentations 5:14?

The 10 strongest of 11.