Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen [from] our head, || Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
Literal Standard Version
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 has ceased, || Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
17Our heart has been sick for this, || Our eyes have been dim for these.
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6And they are gathered to Mizpeh, and draw water, and pour out before YHWH, and fast on that day, and say there, “We have sinned against YHWH”; and Samuel judges the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.
Psalms 89:39Have rejected the covenant of Your servant, || You have defiled his crown to the earth,
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, || For their tongue and their doings [are] against YHWH, || To provoke the eyes of His glory.
Jeremiah 2:17Do you not do this to yourself? [By] your forsaking your God YHWH, || At the time He is leading you in the way?
Jeremiah 4:18“Your way and your doings have done these to you, || This [is] your distress, for [it is] bitter, || For it has struck to your heart.”
Jeremiah 32:23and they come in, and possess it, and they have not listened to Your voice, and have not walked in Your law, all that which You laid a charge on them to do they have not done, and You proclaim all this calamity [to] 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 →