Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 gate, the young men from their music.
16The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.
Cross References
Job 30:31Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will cause to cease from among 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 millstones, 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 all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the 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 →