Lamentations 5:16

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my glory, taken the diadem from my brow.

Psalm 89:39

But now you have rejected and spurned, been enraged at your anointed.

Proverbs 14:34

Justice exalts a nation, but sin is a people’s disgrace.

Proverbs 27:24

For wealth does not last forever, nor even a crown from age to age.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

Jeremiah 2:17

Has not forsaking the Lord, your God, done this to you?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

Jeremiah 32:23

They went in and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice. They did not live by your law; they did not do anything you commanded them to do. Then you made all this evil fall upon them.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you; how bitter is this evil of yours, how it reaches to your very heart!

Lamentations 1:1

How solitary sits the city, once filled with people. She who was great among the nations is now like a widow. Once a princess among the provinces, now a toiling slave.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:20

Look, O Lord, at the anguish I suffer! My stomach churns, And my heart recoils within me: How bitter I am! Outside the sword bereaves— indoors, there is death.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his wrath has abhorred daughter Zion, Casting down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, Not remembering his footstool on the day of his wrath!

Lamentations 4:13

Except for the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who poured out in her midst the blood of the just.

Ezekiel 21:26

For the king of Babylon is standing at the fork of the two roads to read the omens: he shakes out the arrows, inquires of the teraphim, inspects the liver.

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of anything that you are going to suffer. Indeed, the devil will throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will face an ordeal for ten days. Remain faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming quickly. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

1 Samuel 7:6

When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out on the ground before the Lord, and they fasted that day, saying, “We have sinned against the Lord.” It was at Mizpah that Samuel began to judge the Israelites. Rout of the Philistines.