Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Noyes Bible
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 is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.
17For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
Cross References
Psalms 89:39Thou hast made void the covenant with thy servant; Thou hast cast his crown to the ground.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem tottereth, and Judah falleth, Because their tongues and their deeds are against Jehovah, To provoke his holy eyes.
Jeremiah 2:17Hath not this come upon thee, Because thou didst forsake Jehovah thy God, When he would have led thee in the way?
Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have brought this upon thee; This is the fruit of thy wickedness; It is bitter; it reacheth to thy heart.
Jeremiah 32:23and they have come in and possessed it; but they have not obeyed thy voice, nor walked according to thy law. They have done nothing of all which thou commandedst them to do. Therefore hast thou caused all this evil to come upon 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 →