King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:16
“The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
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.
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The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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