Lamentations 5:15
The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
Cross References
Job 30:31My harp has been turned into mourning, and my pipes have been turned into a voice of weeping.
Jeremiah 25:10And I will perish from them the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp.
Amos 8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your hymns into lamentation. And I will put sackcloth over every one of your backs, and baldness on every head. And I will begin it like the mourning for an only-begotten son, and complete 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 →