Lamentations 5:15
Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
16Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
Cross References
Job 30:31Thus is attuned to mourning—my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.
Jeremiah 25:10And I will banish from among them—The voice of joy, 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 8:10So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up—on all loins—sackcloth, and upon every head—baldness,—and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, as a day of bitterness.
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 →