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Lamentations 5:16

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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

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He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.

for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.

Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads.”

Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way?

Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey you or follow your law; they did not do what you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.

“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”

How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.

“The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.

“See, Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.

How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

But it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed within her the blood of the righteous.

this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Take off the turban, remove the crown. It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.

Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.

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 persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Now Samuel was serving as leader of Israel at Mizpah.




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