Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Cross References
Job 30:31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Jeremiah 25:10Moreover 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 millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
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 →