Lamentations 5:16

A Request For Mercy

¹⁵ The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony. ¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! ¹⁷ Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim.

We Have Sinned

Psalm 89:39

You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dirt.

Jeremiah 13:18

"Say to the king and to the queen mother, '{Take a lower seat}, for {your beautiful crown} has come down from your head.'

Job 19:9

He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head.

Isaiah 3:9-11

The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

Lamentations 1:1

How desolate the city sits [that] was full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness will exalt a nation, but sin [is] a reproach to a people.

Jeremiah 2:17

Did you not do this to yourself, [by] forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that [it is] evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me [is] not in you," {declares} the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

"You obtained this for yourself [because of] your way and your deeds. This [is] your doom, for [it is] bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart."

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned grievously, thus she became an objection of derision; all those who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.

Lamentations 1:18

Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled [against] {his word}. Please hear, all [the] nations, And see my pain; My young women and young men went into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

How, {in his anger}, the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens [to] earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of {his anger}.

Lamentations 4:13

Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people.

Ezekiel 7:17-22

All of the hands will hang limp, and all of {the knees will be wet with urine}.

Ezekiel 21:26

thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Remove the turban and lift off the crown; things [are] no longer the same. Exalt the low and bring low the high.

Ezekiel 22:12-16

They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held [them] captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness [and] handed [them] over to be kept for judgment,

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of [the things] which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw [some] of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will experience affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.