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Lamentations 5:16
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
- English Standard Version (ESV)The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
- New King James Version (NKJV)The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
- New Living Translation (NLT)The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.
Context of Lamentations 5:16
14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. 15Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! 17Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim 18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
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נָֽפְלָה֙ עֲטֶ֣רֶת רֹאשֵׁ֔נוּ אֽוֹי־נָ֥א לָ֖נוּ כִּ֥י חָטָֽאנוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 5:16
- Lamentations 1:1How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
- Job 19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
- Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.
- Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads.”
- Ezekiel 21:26this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Take off the turban, remove the crown. It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.
- Revelation 2:10Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.
- Revelation 3:11I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
- Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.
- Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Lamentations 4:13But it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed within her the blood of the righteous.
- Proverbs 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
- Isaiah 3:9The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
- Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 4:18“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”
- Ezekiel 7:17Every hand will go limp; every leg will be wet with urine.
- Ezekiel 22:12In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The crown is fallen from our head - At feasts, marriages, etc., they used to crown themselves with garlands of flowers; all festivity of this kind was now at an end. Or it may refer to their having lost all sovereignty, being made slaves.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Literally, “The crown of our head is fallen,” i. e. what was our chief ornament and dignity is lost; the independence of the nation, and all that gave them rank and honor.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-17These terrible things happened because the people had sinned (see Isaiah 24:7–12; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 13:18; Jeremiah 25:10–11; Amos 8:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. The crown--all our glory, the kingdom and the priesthood (Job 19:9; Psa 89:39, 44).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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