Lamentations 5:16

New Century Version

The crown has fallen from our head. How terrible it is because we sinned.

Cross References

Job 19:9

He has taken away my honor and removed the crown from my head.

Psalm 89:39

You have abandoned the agreement with your servant and thrown his crown to the ground.

Proverbs 14:34

Doing what is right makes a nation great, but sin will bring disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 27:24

Riches will not go on forever, nor do governments go on forever.

Isaiah 3:8

This will happen because Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen. The things they say and do are against the Lord; they turn against him.

Jeremiah 13:18

Tell this to the king and the queen mother: “Come down from your thrones, because your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads.”

Jeremiah 2:17

Haven’t you brought this on yourselves by turning away from the Lord your God when he was leading you in the right way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your evil will bring punishment to you, and the wrong you have done will teach you a lesson. Think about it and understand that it is a terrible evil to turn away from the Lord your God. It is wrong not to fear me,” says the Lord God All-Powerful.

Jeremiah 32:23

They came into this land and took it for their own, but they did not obey you or follow your teachings. They did not do everything you commanded. So you made all these terrible things happen to them.

Jeremiah 4:18

“The way you have lived and acted has brought this trouble to you. This is your punishment. How terrible it is! The pain stabs your heart!”

Lamentations 1:1

Jerusalem once was full of people, but now the city is empty. Jerusalem once was a great city among the nations, but now she is like a widow. She was like a queen of all the other cities, but now she is a slave.

Lamentations 1:18

Jerusalem says, “The Lord is right, but I refused to obey him. Listen, all you people, and look at my pain. My young women and men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:20

“Look at me, Lord. I am upset and greatly troubled. My heart is troubled, because I have been so stubborn. Out in the streets, the sword kills; inside the houses, death destroys.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned terribly, so she has become unclean. Those who honored her now hate her, because they have seen her nakedness. She groans and turns away.

Lamentations 2:1

Look how the Lord in his anger has brought Jerusalem to shame. He has thrown down the greatness of Israel from the sky to the earth; he did not remember the Temple, his footstool, on the day of his anger.

Lamentations 4:13

It happened because her prophets sinned and her priests did evil. They killed in the city those who did what was right.

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Lord God says: Take off the royal turban, and remove the crown. Things will change. Those who are important now will be made unimportant, and those who are unimportant now will be made important.

Micah 6:13

As for me, I will make you sick. I will attack you, ruining you because of your sins.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer for ten days. But be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

“I am coming soon. Continue strong in your faith so no one will take away your crown.

1 Samuel 7:6

So the Israelites met together at Mizpah. They drew water from the ground and poured it out before the Lord and fasted that day. They confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel served as judge of Israel at Mizpah.