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Lamentations 5:14

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

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  1. Lamentations 5:12

    Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

  2. Lamentations 5:13

    They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

  3. Lamentations 5:15

    The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

  4. Lamentations 5:16

    The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.