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 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.
- 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 lift you up.
- Ps 30:11 : 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off 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 candle.
- 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 chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; 6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. 7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
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7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
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10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage] shouting to cease.
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31My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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9For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in 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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8¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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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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13¶ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
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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 be desolate.
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18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in 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 candle.
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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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2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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14Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl 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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4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.