Lamentations 5:16

God's Word

The crown has fallen from our head. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us.

Cross References

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my honor. He has taken the crown off my head.

Psalm 89:39

You have refused to recognize the promise to your servant and have thrown his crown into the dirt.

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness lifts up a nation, but sin is a disgrace in any society.

Proverbs 27:24

Wealth is not forever. Nor does a crown last from one generation to the next.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and what they do is against the Lord. They are defiant in his honored presence.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads.”

Jeremiah 2:17

You have brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God when he led you on his way.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your unfaithful ways will punish you. You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you if you abandon the Lord your God and do not fear me,” declares the Almighty Lord of Armies.

Jeremiah 32:23

They entered and took possession of it. However, they refused to obey you or to follow your teachings. They didn’t do anything you commanded them to do, so you brought all this disaster on them.

Jeremiah 4:18

“You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.”

Lamentations 1:1

“Look how deserted Jerusalem is! Once the city was crowded with people. Once it was important among the nations. Now it is a widow. Once it was a princess among the provinces. Now it does forced labor.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is right in what he did, because I rebelled against his word. Please listen, all you people, and look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:20

“O Lord, see the distress I’m in! My stomach is churning. My heart is pounding because I’ve been very bitter. In the streets swords kill my children. Inside the houses it’s like death.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned so much that it has become a filthy thing. Everyone who used to honor it now despises it. They’ve seen it naked. Jerusalem groans and turns away.

Lamentations 2:1

“Look how the Lord has covered the people of Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has thrown down Israel’s beauty from heaven to earth. He didn’t ⌞even⌟ remember his footstool on the day of his anger.

Lamentations 4:13

⌞They got through⌟ because of the sins of Jerusalem’s prophets and the crimes of its priests, who spilled the blood of righteous people within it.

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Almighty Lord says: Take off your turban, and get rid of your crown. Things are going to change. Those who are unimportant will become important, and those who are important will become unimportant.

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with heavy blows and to ruin you because of your sins.

Revelation 2:10

Don’t be afraid of what you are going to suffer. The devil is going to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested. Your suffering will go on for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming soon! Hold on to what you have so that no one takes your crown.

1 Samuel 7:6

So the Israelites gathered together at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of the Lord, and fasted that day. They confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.