Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased; 1 Our dance is turned into mourning. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14And the elders ceased from the gate, 1 The chosen men ceased from their music. 1
16The crown has fallen from our head: 1 Yea, woe to us! for we have sinned. 1
Cross References
Job 30:31My harp also has been turned into mourning, 1 And my song into my weeping.
Jeremiah 25:10And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.
Amos 8:10and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.
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 →