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Lamentations 5:16

The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:16 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
  • BSB The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • NKJV The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • NASB The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • NLT The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
  • Isa 3:9–11The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
  • Job 19:9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
  • Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.
  • Lam 4:13It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
  • Lam 1:1How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!
  • Jer 4:18“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
  • Prov 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
  • Ezek 7:17–22All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.
  • Jer 2:17“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
  • Rev 3:11I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
  • Lam 1:8Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
  • Lam 1:18“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
  • Ezek 22:12–16In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezek 21:26thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
  • Lam 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
  • Jer 2:19“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  • Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
  • 2 Pet 2:4–6For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

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  • VideoBibleProject — Lamentations videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.

How Lamentations 5:16 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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