Lamentations 5:15

A Request For Mercy

¹⁴ Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music. ¹⁵ Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance. ¹⁶ Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

No

Amos 8:10

So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up - on all loins - sackcloth, and upon every head - baldness, - and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, as a day of bitterness.

Psalm 30:11

Thou hast turned my lamentation, into a dance for me, - Thou hast torn off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness:

Jeremiah 25:10

And I will banish from among them - The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, - The sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp:

Amos 6:4-7

Who are lying on beds of ivory, and sprawling on their couch of pleasure, - and eating the well-fed of the flock, and the fatted calves out of the midst of the stalls:

James 4:9-10

Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection;