Lamentations 5:15
The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.
16The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.
Cross References
Amos 8:10And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songues into lamentation: and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head, & I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne, and the end therof 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 →