Lamentations 5:16

A Request For Mercy

¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. ¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

We Have Sinned

Psalm 89:39

Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.

Job 19:9

He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

Isaiah 3:9-11

The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

Lamentations 1:1

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.

Jeremiah 2:17

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

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

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

Lamentations 1:18

Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 4:13

It is because of 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 saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; this'shall be no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.

Ezekiel 22:12-16

In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Revelation 2:10

Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to 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

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