Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
16The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Cross References
Job 30:31My harp also is turned to mourning, And my pipe to notes of grief.
Jeremiah 25:10Yea, I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill-stones, and the light of the lamp.
Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, And baldness upon all heads. I will fill the land with mourning, as for an only son, And its end shall be as a day of bitter woe.
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 →