Lamentations 5:16

A Request For Mercy

¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head;
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
¹⁷ For this our heart is saddened; for these things our eyes are become dim.

We Have Sinned

Psalm 89:39

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy slave; thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down in the dust because the crown of your glory has come down off your heads.

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

Isaiah 3:9-11

The appearance of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Lamentations 1:1

Aleph How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! The great one among the nations is become as a widow; the princess of provinces is become tributary.

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalts a people, but sin is a reproach to the nations.

Jeremiah 2:17

Could this not have come upon you peradventure because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God and that my fear is lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness because it is bitter, because it reaches unto thine heart.

Lamentations 1:8

Cheth Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed; all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness; yea, she sighs and is turned backward.

Lamentations 1:18

Tzaddi The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his mouth; hear now, all the peoples and see my sorrow; my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

Aleph How has the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his anger! He has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!

Lamentations 4:13

Mem For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

Ezekiel 7:17-22

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Ezekiel 21:26

thus hath the Lord GOD said: Remove the diadem and take off the crown; it shall no longer be like this; I will exalt the one that is low and abase the one that is high.

Ezekiel 22:12-16

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the deepest abyss and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

Behold, I come quickly; hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.