Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Updated King James Version
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 is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
Psalms 89:39You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Jeremiah 2:17Have you not procured this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
Jeremiah 4:18Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reachs unto yours heart.
Jeremiah 32:23And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commandedst them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon 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 →