Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
In Context
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against LORD. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpah.
Psalms 89:39Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Jeremiah 2:17Have thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou have forsaken LORD thy God when he led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things to thee. This is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to thy heart.
Jeremiah 32:23And they came in, and possessed it, but they obeyed not thy voice, nor walked in thy law. They have done nothing of all that thou commanded them to do. Therefore thou have caused all this evil to come upon them.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →