¹⁵ The joy of our heart is gone, our merry query is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The garland of our head is fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore! ¹⁷ Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim:

Phrases

We Have Sinned

Cross References

Psalm 89:39

Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant, and cast his crown to the ground.

Jeremiah 13:18

Tell the king and the rulers, "Humble yourselves, set you down low, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head."

Job 19:9

He hath spoiled me of mine honour, and taken the crown away from my head.

Isaiah 3:9-11

The changing of their countenance betrayeth them; yea, they declare their own sins themselves, as Sodom, and hide them not. Woe be unto their souls, for they shall be heavily rewarded.

Lamentations 1:1

{Aleph} Alas, how sitteth the city so desolate, that some time was full of people? How is she become like a widow, which was the lady of all nations? How is she brought under tribute, that ruled all lands?

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness setteth up the people; but wickedness bringeth folk to destruction.

Jeremiah 2:17

Cometh not this unto thee, because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, ever since he led thee by the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

Thy ways and thy thoughts have brought thee unto this. This is thy own wickedness and disobedience, that hath possessed thine heart.

Lamentations 1:8

{Khet} Jerusalem sinned ever more and more, therefore is she come in decay. All they that had her in honour, despise her: for they have seen her filthiness. Yea she sigheth and is ashamed of herself.

Lamentations 1:18

{Tsadi} The LORD is righteous, for I provoked his countenance unto anger. O take heed all ye people, and consider my heaviness: My maidens and my young men are led away in to captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

{Aleph} Alas, how hath the LORD darkened the daughter of Zion so sore in his wrath? As for the honour of Israel, he hath casten it down from heaven: How happeneth it, that he remembered not his own foot stool when he was angry?

Lamentations 4:13

{Mem} Which nevertheless is come to pass for the sins of her prophets, and for the wickedness of her priests that have shed innocents' blood within her.

Ezekiel 7:17-22

All hands shall be let down, and all knees shall be weak as the water;

Ezekiel 21:26

Thus sayeth the LORD God: Take away the mitre, and put off the crown, and so is it away: the humble is exalted, and the proud brought low.

Ezekiel 22:12-16

Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be kept unto judgement;

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast of you into prison, to tempt you, and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto the death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

Behold, I come shortly. Hold that which thou hast, that no man take away thy crown.