Lamentations 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! More versionsKing 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 renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”
Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, while he led you in the way?
Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.
and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or follow your laws; of all you commanded them to do, they did nothing. Therefore you have made all these disasters come upon them.
Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.”
How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become subject to forced labor.
The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my young women and young men have gone into captivity.
Look, O Lord, at how distressed I am; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.
Jerusalem sinned grievously, so she has become a filthy thing; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.
How the Lord in his anger has humiliated daughter Zion! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
It was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
thus says the Lord God: Remove the turban, take off the crown; things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low; humble that which is high.
Therefore I have begun to strike you down, making you desolate because of your sins.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Beware, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one takes away your crown.
So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.