Lamentations 5:16 - Tree of Life Version The crown has fallen from our head. Oy to us, for we have sinned! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us, that we have sinned! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is brought to the dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned! American Standard Version (1901) The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. Common English Bible The crown has fallen off our head. We are doomed because we have sinned. Catholic Public Domain Version The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The crown is fallen from our head. Woe to us, because we have sinned! |
But You have cast off and spurned, You have become furious with Your anointed one.
for riches are not forever, nor a crown from generation to generation.
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah is fallen. For their tongue and their actions are against Adonai, defying the eyes of His glory.
Say to the king and the queen mother: “Sit down low, for your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”
Your own wickedness will rebuke you and your backslidings will chide you. Know then and see how bad and bitter it is for you to forsake Adonai your God. Nor is fear of Me in you.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.
They came in and possessed it. But they did not obey your voice nor walk in your Torah. They have done nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you caused all this evil to fall on them.
Your conduct and your deeds have brought these things on you. This is your calamity! How bitter it is! How it smites your heart!
How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She who was once great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer.
“Adonai is righteous, for I have rebelled against His word. Hear now, all peoples— look at my suffering! My maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
Look, Adonai, for I am in distress! My stomach churns, my heart pounds within me, for I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves, in the house it is like death.
Jerusalem has greatly sinned— therefore, she has become niddah . All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans, and turns away.
How my Lord has clouded over the daughter of Zion in His anger! He hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth. He has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her kohanim, who shed in her midst the blood of the tzadikim .
For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the start of the two roads, to seek divination. He shakes the arrows, consults the idols, he looks in the liver.
So also I will strike you severely, desolating you because of your sins.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
I am coming soon—hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.
So they gathered together at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before Adonai. They fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against Adonai.” Then Samuel was judging Bnei-Yisrael at Mizpah.