Lamentations 5:15
Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
Leeser Tanakh
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, young men, from their singing.
16Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
Cross References
Job 30:31And thus is changed to mourning my harp, and my pipe to the sound of weeping.
Jeremiah 25:10And I will banish from them the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill, and the light of the lamp.
Amos 8:10And I will change your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations; and I will bring upon all loins sackcloth, and upon every head baldness; and I will cause [the land] to mourn as one doth for an only son, and its end to be as a day of bitter [complaint].
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 →