Lamentations 5:16
The ateret is fallen from our head; 1 woe unto us, for we have sinned! 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 gone; 1 mekholeinu (our dance) is turned into mourning. 1
17For this our lev is faint; 1 because of these things our eyes are dim. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6And they gathered together at Mitzpah, and drew mayim, and poured it out before Hashem, and did a tzom on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Hashem. And Shmuel judged the Bnei Yisroel at Mitzpah.
Psalms 89:39But Thou hast cast off + 89:39 mem-alef-samech, see same word Ps 118:22 and abhorred, 1 Thou hast been in wrath with Thine Moshiach. 1
Isaiah 3:8For Yerushalayim is ruined, 1 and Yehudah fallen; 1 because their leshon and their deeds are against Hashem, 1 to provoke the eyes of His kavod. 1
Jeremiah 2:17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, 1 in that thou hast forsaken Hashem Eloheicha, 1 when He led thee by the derech? 1
Jeremiah 4:18Thy derech and thy deeds 1 have brought these things upon thee; 1 this is thy wickedness, 1 how mar (bitter) it is, 1 for it hath touched upon thine lev. 1
Jeremiah 32:23And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not Thy voice, neither walked in Thy torah; they have done nothing of all that Thou commandedst them to do; therefore Thou hast caused all this ra'ah 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 →