Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head; 1 woe to us, for we have sinned! 1
Unlocked Literal 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 has ceased 1 and our dancing has turned into mourning. 1
17For this our heart has become sick, 1 for these things our eyes grow dim 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6They gathered at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” It was there that Samuel decided disputes for the people of Israel and led the people.
Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. 1 You have desecrated his crown on the ground. 1
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, 1 because their speech and their actions are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory. 1
Jeremiah 2:17Did you not do this to yourselves 1 when you abandoned Yahweh your God, while he was leading you along the way? 1
Jeremiah 4:18and your conduct and your deeds have done these things to you. This will be your punishment. How terrible it will be! It will strike your very heart.
Jeremiah 32:23So they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or live in obedience to your law. They did nothing of what you had commanded them to do, so you brought all this disaster on 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 →