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Lamentations 5:14

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Gates, where sentence was usually passed. (Haydock) The Jews had judges at Babylon, (Daniel xiii. 5.) but not at first, nor everywhere.

Thomas Aquinas

AD 1274
Here misery is considered in relation to the people's lost possessions. First, as persons' offices as stated: "The old men have quit the city gate." Namely, exercising their office at the city gate. Then: "the young men their music": That is, as exercising their office as leaders in chorusing. As I Maccabees 2:9 refers: Her babes have been killed in her streets, her youths by the sword of the foe."

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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