World English Bible
Lamentations 5:16
“The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
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The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
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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 to us! for we have sinned.
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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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