The gate - The gate was the place for public gatherings, for conversation, and the music of stringed instruments.

Have ceased from the gate. —The gate in an Eastern city was the natural place of meeting for the elder citizens for couns…

Here the Prophet briefly shows that the city was reduced to ruins, so that nothing but desolation could be seen there. For when cities are inhabite…

The elders have ceased from the gate
Of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, as the Targum; from the gate of the c…

Is anyone afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they do not complain of evils…