Lamentations 5:16
Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
In Context
15Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
17Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6And they assembled themselves together at 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 made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned, down to the ground, his crown.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is sunk to decay, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to incense the eyes of his glory.
Jeremiah 2:17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, through thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while he was leading thee on the [right] way?
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee: this is thy wickedness, which is so bitter, which so reacheth unto thy heart.
Jeremiah 32:23And they came in, and took possession of it; but they hearkened not to thy voice, and in thy law they did not walk; all that thou hadst commanded them to do they did not do: and thou hast therefore 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 →