Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head: 1 Yea, woe to us! for we have sinned. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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; 1 Our dance is turned into mourning. 1
17For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: 1 For this our eyes are darkened. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6And they were gathered together to Mizpah, and they drew water, and poured it out upon the earth before the Lord. And they fasted on that day, and said, We have sinned before the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues have spoken with iniquity, disobedient as they are toward the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:17Has not thy forsaking me brought these things upon thee? saith the Lord thy God.
Jeremiah 4:18Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee; this is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it has reached to thy heart.
Jeremiah 32:23and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face,
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 →