Lamentations 5:16

A Request For Mercy

¹⁵ Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance. ¹⁶ Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned. ¹⁷ For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:

We Have Sinned

Psalm 89:39

Thou hast cast down the covenant of thy Servant, Thou hast profaned, to the earth, his crown;

Jeremiah 13:18

Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother, Abase yourselves - Sit down, - For descended have your Head-tires, your Crown of adornment.

Job 19:9

My glory - from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;

Isaiah 3:9-11

The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin - like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.

Lamentations 1:1

How is seated alone, the city that abounded with people, hath become as a widow, - She who abounded among the nations was a princess among provinces, hath come under tribute.

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness, exalteth a nation, but, a reproach to any people, is sin.

Jeremiah 2:17

Is not this what thou wast certain to do for thyself, - in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Let thy wickedness correct thee And thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God, And that the dread of me should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

Thine own way And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee, - This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem, hath grievously sinned, For this cause, unto exile, hath she been delivered, - All who used to honour her, have despised her, for they have descried her unseemliness, yea, she herself, hath sighed, and turned back.

Lamentations 1:18

Righteous is Yahweh, for, against his bidding, had I rebelled, - Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men, have gone into exile.

Lamentations 2:1

How could My Lord, in his anger, enshroud in gloom, the daughter of Zion? have cast from the heavens to the earth, the beauty of Israel? and not have remembered his footstool, in the day of his anger?

Lamentations 4:13

It is for the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests, - who have been pouring out, in her midst, the blood of the righteous!

Ezekiel 7:17-22

All hands shall be unnerved; and All knees shall be weak as water,

Ezekiel 21:26

Thus, saith My Lord. Yahweh, Remove the turban, And lift off the crown, - This not that, The abased, exalt, And the exalted, abase.

Ezekiel 22:12-16

Bribes, have they accepted in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,-Interest and increase, hast thou accepted And thou hast overreached thy neighbour by oppression, And me, hast thou forgotten, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For - if, God, spared not, messengers, when they sinned, but, to pits of gloom, consigning them, in the lowest hades, delivered them up to be kept, unto judgment, -

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear the things which thou art about to suffer. Lo! the adversary is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and may have tribulation ten days. Become thou faithful until 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.