Lamentations 5:16
The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
In Context
15The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.
17Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:8For Hierusalem and Iuda must decay: because that both their wordes and counsayles are agaynst the Lorde to prouoke the presence of his maiestie to anger.
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 →