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 to 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

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.

Job 19:9

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

Isaiah 3:9-11

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Lamentations 1:1

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

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Jeremiah 2:17

"Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

"Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Jeremiah 4:18

"Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

Lamentations 1:18

Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn't 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 says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, 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 you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

Revelation 2:10

Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.