...from . the gate, the young men from their music ; they can no longer 1 5 entertain themselves or us. The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning ; all entertainments and diversions 16 are at an end. The crown is fallen [from] our head : wo unto...

...profaned by the wicked in the service of the Devil. And hence the lamentation of the prophet Jeremiah, The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning. 17. And although the wicked, unjustly took, and used this manner of worship in their idolatrous feasts,...

...of faith. But now, perhaps, " The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music, the joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning." But, when the truth is received in the love of it; when the testimony is bound up in the heart by the...

...children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown is fallen from our head : wo unto us that we have sinned ! 17 For this our heart is faint...

...is loosed, and the golden bowl is broken" (Eccl. xii. 6), and with the prophet of old we feel that " the joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning" (Lament. v. 15). In the bitterness of our grief we feel that life has become burdensome to us, and...

...afflicted, and she is in bitterness. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning. The crown is fallen from our head. M> harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that...

...children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown is fallen from our head : woe unto us, that we have sinned ! 17 For this our heart is...

...reads in the original. And joy, being the blossom, or bloom of grace, it soon withers ; Joel i. 12. " The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning," Lam. v. 15. Hence it appears that peace is no weapon of war, nor is joy a bosom friend in affliction....

...Dr. Collyer. Lament, v. 14, 15. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning. (Printed.) Petersham. Rev. _ Mitchell. Matt. ix. 25. But when the people were put forth, he went in,...

...London. LAM. chap. v., v. 14, 15. The ciders have ceased from the gate: the young men from their music. The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning. I SCARCELY know how to trust myself to speak upon this subject. Our loss is irreparable : and the time...