Lamentations 5:16

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

v.16This passage

v.17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

Cross references

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

  • Lamentations 1:1

    How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

  • Lamentations 1:8

    Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

  • Ezekiel 21:26

    thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; this shall be no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.

  • 2 Peter 2:4

    For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

  • Revelation 2:10

    Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

  • Psalms 89:39

    Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.