The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.

老年人在城门口断绝；少年人不再作乐。

城门口不再有老年人，年轻人也不再奏乐。

城门口不再有老年人，年轻人也不再奏乐。

老人不再坐在城门口，青年不再弹琴奏乐。

众长老不再坐在城门口；青年人不再唱歌作乐。

老年人在城門口斷絕；少年人不再作樂。

城門口不再有老年人，年輕人也不再奏樂。

城門口不再有老年人，年輕人也不再奏樂。

老人不再坐在城門口，青年不再彈琴奏樂。

眾長老不再坐在城門口；青年人不再唱歌作樂。

老年人停止了坐城門口，青年人止息了作樂。

耆老絕於邑門、少者止其音樂兮、

長老不坐門側、少壯不作音樂兮。

老者不復坐邑門、少者不復歌唱、

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Our elders don’t go to the city gate anymore. Our young men have stopped playing their music.

The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.

The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.

Elders are absent from the gate, Young men from their music.

The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.

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

The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.

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

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

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

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, for the land will become a desolate waste.

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

The elders of Daughter 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.

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.

The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again; no craftsman of any trade will ever be found in you again; the sound of a mill will never be heard in you again;

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.The noblemen’s voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.When they heard me, they blessed me, and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.The dying blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.

heroes and warriors, judges and prophets, fortune-tellers and elders,commanders of fifty and dignitaries, counselors, cunning magicians, and necromancers.

The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.The joyful tambourines have ceased. The noise of the jubilant has stopped. The joyful lyre has ceased.They no longer sing and drink wine; beer is bitter to those who drink it.The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.In the streets they cry for wine. All joy grows dark; earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.

I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them— the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.

My lyre is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

I called to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while searching for food to keep themselves alive.

“ Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.