King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:15
“The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17
For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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