Lamentations 5:16 - The Scriptures 2009 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us, that we have sinned! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is brought to the dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned! American Standard Version (1901) The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. Common English Bible The crown has fallen off our head. We are doomed because we have sinned. Catholic Public Domain Version The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The crown is fallen from our head. Woe to us, because we have sinned! |
You have disowned the covenant of Your servant, You have defiled his diadem in the dust.
Righteousness exalts a nation; And loving-commitment, To the peoples is sin.
For Yerushalayim has stumbled, and Yehuḏah has fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against יהוה, to provoke the eyes of His esteem.
Say to the sovereign and to the sovereigness mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your rule, the crown of your comeliness, has come down.”
“Have you not done this to yourself, by forsaking יהוה your Elohim when He led you in the way?
“Your own evil instructs you, and your backslidings reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken יהוה your Elohim, and that My fear is not in you,” declares the Master יהוה of hosts.
And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice nor did they walk in Your Torah. They did not do all that You commanded them to do, so You brought all this evil upon them.
“Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your evil, because it is bitter, because it has reached into your heart.”
How she sits, The city once great with people! Like a widow she has become, One great among the nations! A princess among provinces has become a slave!
יהוה is righteous, for I rebelled against His mouth. Hear now, all peoples, and see my pain. My maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
“See, O יהוה, that I am in distress. My inward parts are boiling up, My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. From without the sword has bereaved, At home it is like death.
Yerushalayim has sinned greatly, Therefore she has become defiled. All who esteemed her despised her Because they have seen her nakedness. She herself has sighed and turned away.
How יהוה in His displeasure Has covered the daughter of Tsiyon with a cloud! He has cast down from the heavens to the earth The comeliness of Yisra’ĕl, And has not remembered His footstool in the day of His displeasure.
It was because of the sins of her prophets, The crookednesses of her priests, Who shed in her midst the blood of the righteous.
thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown! This shall not remain! Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted.
“So I also, I shall strike you with a grievous wound, to lay you waste because of your sins:
“Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. See, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, in order to try you, and you shall have pressure ten days. Be trustworthy until death, and I shall give you the crown of life.
“See, I am coming speedily! Hold what you have that no one take your crown.
And they gathered to Mitspah and drew water, and poured it out before יהוה. And they fasted that day, and said there, “We have sinned against יהוה.” And Shemu’ĕl rightly ruled the children of Yisra’ĕl at Mitspah.