Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
16The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
Cross References
Job 30:31My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
Jeremiah 25:10And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill, and the light of the lamp.
Amos 8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as 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 →