Lamentations 5:16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Bible in Basic English
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 hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
17Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.
Psalms 89:39\89:38\But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.
Jeremiah 2:17Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
Jeremiah 4:18Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
Jeremiah 32:23And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on 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 →