Lamentations 5:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.

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  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songues into lamentation: and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head, & I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne, and the end therof as a bitter day.
  • Jas 4:9-9 : 9 Suffer afflictions, and mourne, and weepe: Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioy to heauinesse. 10 Humble your selues in the sight of the Lorde, and he shall lyft you vp.
  • Ps 30:11 : 11 And foorthwith thou hast turned my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put of my sackcloth, and gyrded me with gladnes.
  • Jer 25:10 : 10 Moreouer, I wyll take from them the voyce of gladnesse and solace, the voyce of the bridegrome and the bride, the noyse of the milstones, and the light of the cressets.
  • Amos 6:4-7 : 4 They lye vpon beddes of yuorie, and stretche them selues vpon their couches, and eate the lambes out of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall. 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid. 6 They drinke wine in bowles, and annoynt them selues with chiefe ointmentes: but no man is sorie for the affliction of Ioseph. 7 Therfore nowe shall they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorowe of them that stretched them selues is at hande.

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  • Lam 5:13-14
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    13 They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.

    14 The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    16 The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.

    17 Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.

  • Isa 24:7-8
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    7 The wine fayleth, the vine hath no myght, all they that haue ben mery of heart are come to mournyng.

    8 The myrth of tabrettes is layde downe, the noyse of such as haue made mery is ceassed, the ioy at the harpe is at an ende.

  • 10 The mirth and cheare is taken away out of the plentifull fielde, and in the vineyardes there shalbe no ioy nor gladnesse: The treader shall treade out no wine in their presses, the song of their mery cheare haue I layde downe.

  • 31 My harpe is turned to mourning, and my organs into the voyce of them that weepe.

  • 11 In the streetes is there a crying because of wine, all cheare is vanished away, the myrth of the lande is gone.

  • 13 Then shall the mayde reioyce in the daunce, yea both young and olde folkes: for I wyll turne their sorowe into gladnesse, and wyll comfort them from their sorowes, and make them ioyfull.

  • Joel 1:16-17
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    16 Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, yea mirth and ioy from the house of our God?

    17 The seede is rotte vnder their cloddes, the garners are destroyed, the barnes are ouerthrowen: for the corne is withered.

  • 12 The wine is dryed vp, and the figge tree is decayed, the pomgranate tree, and the paulme, & the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are withered vp: for ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.

  • 11 And foorthwith thou hast turned my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put of my sackcloth, and gyrded me with gladnes.

  • 13 The heart is sorowfull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heauinesse.

  • 9 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: Beholde, I shall take away out of this place the voyce of mirth and gladnesse, the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride, yea and that in your dayes, that ye may see it.

  • Joel 1:8-10
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    8 Lament as a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the husbande of her youth.

    9 The meate offeryng and drinke offeryng is cut of from the house of the Lorde, the priestes I meane the Lordes ministers mourne.

    10 The fielde is wasted, the lande mourneth: for corne is destroyed, the newe wine is dryed vp, the oyle is vtterly taken away.

  • 33 Myrth and cheare shalbe taken away from the fertile fielde, and from the lande of Moab: there shalbe no sweete wine in the presse, the treader shal haue no stomacke to crye, yea there shalbe none to crye vnto him,

  • 9 Suffer afflictions, and mourne, and weepe: Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioy to heauinesse.

  • 13 A mery heart maketh a chearfull countenaunce: but by the sorowe of the heart the mynde is heauy.

  • 4 The streetes of Sion mourne, because no man cometh no more to the solempne feastes: all her gates are desolate, her priestes make lamentatio, her maydens are carefull, and she her selfe is in great heauinesse.

  • 34 And as for the voyce of mirth and gladnesse of the cities of Iuda and Hierusalem, the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride, I wyll make them ceasse: for the lande shalbe desolate.

  • 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • 10 Moreouer, I wyll take from them the voyce of gladnesse and solace, the voyce of the bridegrome and the bride, the noyse of the milstones, and the light of the cressets.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18 And sing a mourning song of vs, that the teares may fall out of our eyes, and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water.

    19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.

  • 17 And say: We haue pyped vnto you, and ye haue not daunsed: we haue mourned vnto you, and ye haue not sorowed.

  • 5 For thus saith the Lorde, Go not thou into the house of mournyng, nor come to mourne and weepe for them: for I haue taken my peace from this people saith the Lorde, yea my fauour and my mercies.

  • 20 The haruest is gone, the sommer hath an ende, and we are not helped.

  • 15 We loked for peace, and we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

  • 3 Grauitie is better then to laugh: for when the countenaunce is heauie, the heart is refourmed.

  • 4 And my spirite is ouerwhelmed within me: and my heart is desolate in the midst of me.

  • 3 Thou hast multiplied the people, and not increased their ioy: they reioyce before thee, euen as men make merie in haruest, and they be ioyfull as men that do deuide the spoyle after the victorie.

  • Ps 137:2-3
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    2 We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it.

    3 For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and for our waylynges myrth, saying sing vs one of the songes of Sion.

  • 14 Beholde, my seruauntes shall reioyce for very quietnesse of heart: but ye shal crye for sorowe of heart, and complaine for vexation of minde.

  • 11 My dayes are past, and my counsailes and thoughtes of my heart are vanished away,

  • 15 All the dayes of the poore are miserable: but a quiet heart is a continuall feast.

  • 2 Iuda hath mourned, his gates are desolate, they are brought to heauinesse, euen vnto the grounde, and the crye of Hierusalem goeth vp.

  • 13 Therfore commeth my folke into captiuitie, because they haue no vnderstandyng: Their glorie is famished with hunger, and their multitude dryed vp with thirst.

  • 4 A tyme to weepe, and a tyme to laugh: a tyme to mourne, & a tyme to daunce.

  • 5 Awake ye drunkardes, & weepe, howle all ye wine bibbers for lacke of newe wine: for it is cleane taken away from your mouth.

  • 4 My heart trembleth within me: and the feare of death is fallen vpon me.

  • 12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs.

  • 5 They that sowe in teares: shall reape in ioy.

  • 15 Make vs mery accordyng to the dayes that thou hast afflicted vs: and accordyng to the yeres wherin we haue suffred aduersitie.

  • 18 They lay so sharpe wayte for vs, that we can not go safe vpon the streetes, for our ende is come, our dayes are fulfilled, our ende is here.

  • 10 Sacking, resacking, rasing, a dissolued heart and collision of knees, sorow in all loynes also, and the faces of them all as blacke as a pot.