Lamentations 5:15

A Request For Mercy

¹⁴ Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart ceased; our dance was turned to mourning. ¹⁶ The crown of our head fell: wo! now to us, for we sinned.

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Amos 8:10

And turned your festivals into mourning, and all your songs to lamentation; and I brought up sackcloth upon all loins, and upon every head, baldness; and I set it as the mourning of an only one, and its last part as a day of bitterness.

Psalm 30:11

Thou didst turn my wailing to dancing to me: thou didst loose my sackcloth, and thou wilt gird me with gladness;

Jeremiah 25:10

And I destroyed from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of the two millstones and the light of the lamp.

Amos 6:4-7

Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.

James 4:9-10

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.