Lamentations 5:15
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
16The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
Cross References
Job 30:31Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
Jeremiah 25:10Moreouer I will take from them the voyce of mirth and the voyce of gladnesse, the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride, the noise of the milstones, and the light of the candle.
Amos 8:10And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as 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 →