Lamentations 5:15

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

Context

v.14The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

v.15This passage

v.16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Amos 6:4

    that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

  • Psalms 30:11

    Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

  • James 4:9

    Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

  • Jeremiah 25:10

    Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth 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 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.