Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
16The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Cross References
Job 30:31And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.
Jeremiah 25:10And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.
Amos 8:10Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
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 →