Lamentations 5:16

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Lamentations 5:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

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Lamentations 1:1

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Job 19:9

He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

Psalms 89:39

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

Lamentations 1:18

The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

Lamentations 4:13

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Proverbs 14:34

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

Isaiah 3:9

The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

Ezekiel 7:17

Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

Ezekiel 7:19

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

Ezekiel 7:20

His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

Ezekiel 7:21

And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 22:13

Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

Ezekiel 22:14

Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.

Ezekiel 22:15

I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

Ezekiel 22:16

And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

2 Peter 2:5

if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

2 Peter 2:6

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;