Lamentations 5:15

A Request For Mercy

¹⁴ The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. ¹⁵ Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. ¹⁶ Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.

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Amos 8:10

And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning of an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

Psalm 30:11

Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me with joy.

Jeremiah 25:10

And I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of joy, voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, noise of millstones, and the light of lamps.

Amos 6:4-7

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,

James 4:9-10

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;