Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
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Referenced Verses
- Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
- Jas 4:9-9 : 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
- Ps 30:11 : 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
- Jer 25:10 : 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 lamp.
- Amos 6:4-7 : 4 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; 5 that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. 7 Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
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16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
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7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
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31Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
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16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
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12The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.
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11Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
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13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.
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9For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
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8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
10The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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33And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.
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9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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13A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
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4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
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34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
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18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
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10Moreover 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 lamp.
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18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
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17and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.
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20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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2Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.
3For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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14behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
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11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
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15All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart [hath] a continual feast.
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13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
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5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
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15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.
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18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.