Lamentations 5:15

A Request For Mercy

¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.

No

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feast into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Psalm 30:11

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth, and have clothed me with gladness,

Jeremiah 25:10

And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing 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 candle.

Amos 6:4-7

who lie on beds of ivory, and those sprawling on their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

James 4:9-10

Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.