Lamentations 5:15
There's no more happiness for us; our dancing has turned into mourning.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
16The crown has fallen from our head. What a disaster has come upon us because we have sinned!
Cross References
Job 30:31My lyre only plays sad songs, and my pipe is the voice of those who weep.
Jeremiah 25:10I will also put a stop to the cheerful sounds of celebration and the happy voices of the bride and bridegroom. No noise will come from millstones being used; no lamps will be lit.
Amos 8:10I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be 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 →