Lamentations 5:16

A Request For Mercy

¹⁵ Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. ¹⁶ Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned. ¹⁷ For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

We Have Sinned

Psalm 89:39

Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.

Job 19:9

Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

Isaiah 3:9-11

The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

Lamentations 1:1

How hath she sat alone, The city abounding with people! She hath been as a widow, The mighty among nations! Princes among provinces, She hath become tributary!

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples is a sin-offering.

Jeremiah 2:17

Dost thou not do this to thyself? By thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing Is thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This is thy vexation, for it is bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

Lamentations 1:8

A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore impure she hath become, All who honoured her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Yea, she herself hath sighed and turneth backward.

Lamentations 1:18

Righteous is Jehovah, For His mouth I have provoked. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven to earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.

Lamentations 4:13

Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

Ezekiel 7:17-22

All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.

Ezekiel 21:26

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This -- not this -- the low make high, And the high make low.

Ezekiel 22:12-16

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

Revelation 2:10

'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

Revelation 3:11

Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.