Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
In Context
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
17For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there: 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
Psalms 89:39(89-40) Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.
Jeremiah 2:17Is it not this that doth cause it unto thee, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when He led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.
Jeremiah 32:23and they came in, and possessed it; but they hearkened not to Thy voice, neither walked in Thy law; they have done nothing of all that Thou commandedst them to do; therefore Thou hast caused all this evil to befall them;
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 →