Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.
New American Standard Bible
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Holman Bible
our dancing has turned to mourning.
International Standard Version
The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges.
A Conservative Version
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
American Standard Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
Amplified
The joy of our hearts has ended;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
Bible in Basic English
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Darby Translation
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Julia Smith Translation
The joy of our heart ceased; our dance was turned to mourning.
King James 2000
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.
Modern King James verseion
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The joy of our heart is gone, our merry query is turned into mourning.
NET Bible
Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
New Heart English Bible
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
The Emphasized Bible
Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
Webster
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
World English Bible
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
Themes
Israel » Under the special protection of jehovah humbled » Joy of, departed
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Lost the joy of divine favour
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
14 Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments. 15 The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony. 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
Names
Cross References
Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.
Psalm 30:11
You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me [with] joy
Jeremiah 25:10
And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, [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
[Alas for] those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches, and those eating young rams from [the] sheep and goats, and bull-calves from the middle of [the] animal stall.
James 4:9-10
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.