Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:15 in other translations
| BSB | Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. |
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| WEB | The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. |
| ASV | The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
| YLT | Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. |
| DARBY | The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
| BBE | The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow. |
| Webster | The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
What does Lamentations 5:15 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16
The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour. Verses 1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned!…
Lamentations 5:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 5:15
- Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
- Jeremiah 25:10
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
- Amos 6:4-7
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
- Psalms 30:11
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
- James 4:9-10
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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Context
- Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
- Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
- Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cesó el gozo de nuestro corazón; nuestro corro se tornó en luto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Notre cœur a cessé de se réjouir; notre danse est changée en deuil. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Freude unseres Herzens hat aufgehört, in Trauer ist unser Reigen verwandelt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster. |