Therefore is my harp {\i turned} to mourning,\par\tab And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.\par
The joy of our heart is ceased;\par\tab Our dance is turned into mourning.
My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.\par
And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
I go mourning without the sun:\par\tab I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
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.\par