Lamentations 5:15
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
In Context
14The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
16Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
Cross References
Job 30:31And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
Jeremiah 25:10And I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of joy, voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, noise of millstones, and the light of lamps.
Amos 8:10And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head — baldness, And made it as a mourning [of] an only one, And its latter end 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 →