Lamentations 5:16
Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
In Context
15Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
17For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6So they gathered themselves unto Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said, there, We have sinned against Yahweh. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpah.
Psalms 89:39Thou hast cast down the covenant of thy Servant, Thou hast profaned, to the earth, his crown;
Isaiah 3:8For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen,—Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence,
Jeremiah 2:17Is not this what thou wast certain to do for thyself,—in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way?
Jeremiah 4:18Thine own way And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee,—This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.
Jeremiah 32:23And they came in and took possession of it But hearkened not unto thy voice Nor in thy law, did they walk, Nought of what thou hadst commanded them to do, did they do,—And so thou hast caused to befall them all this calamity.
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 →