Lamentations 5:16
Good News Translation
Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.

New Revised Standard Version
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Contemporary English Version
Zion's glory has disappeared! And we are doomed because of our sins.

New American Bible
The crown has fallen from our head: woe to us that we sinned!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

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The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

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Lamentations 1:1 Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces made tributary!

Job 19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 89:39 Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

Jeremiah 13:18 Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

Ezekiel 21:26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high?

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

is fallen from our head.

Lamentations 1:8,18 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward. . . .

Lamentations 2:1 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 4:13 Mem. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Proverbs 14:34 Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.

Isaiah 3:9-11 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them. . . .

Jeremiah 2:17,19 Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way? . . .

Jeremiah 4:18 Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart.

Ezekiel 7:17-22 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water. . . .

Ezekiel 22:12-16 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. . . .

2 Peter 2:4-6 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment: . . .

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.…
Cross References
Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 89:39
Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

Proverbs 27:24
For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.

Isaiah 3:9
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

Lamentations 5:15
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