Lamentations 5:16
New International Version
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

New Living Translation
The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.

English Standard Version
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

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

King James Bible
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

New King James Version
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

New American Standard Bible
The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!

NASB 1995
The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!

NASB 1977
The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Legacy Standard Bible
The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Amplified Bible
The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is covered with dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Christian Standard Bible
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

American Standard Version
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The crown of our head has fallen! Woe to us, because we have sinned!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

Contemporary English Version
Zion's glory has disappeared! And we are doomed because of our sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.

English Revised Version
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us! for we have sinned.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The crown has fallen from our head. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us.

Good News Translation
Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.

International Standard Version
The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned!

JPS Tanakh 1917
The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Literal Standard Version
The crown has fallen [from] our head, | Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.

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

New American Bible
The crown has fallen from our head: woe to us that we sinned!

NET Bible
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

New Revised Standard Version
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

New Heart English Bible
The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.

Webster's Bible Translation
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!

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

Young's Literal Translation
Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.

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Context
A Prayer for Restoration
15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. 16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! 17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—…

Cross References
Job 19:9
He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

Psalm 89:39
You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

Proverbs 27:24
for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.

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.

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."


Treasury of Scripture

The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!

the crown

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 89:39
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

is fallen from our head.

Lamentations 1:8,18
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward…

Lamentations 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

Lamentations 4:13
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

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Lamentations 5
1. A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.














(16) The crown is fallen.--The phrase is naturally symbolic of degradation, and need not be restricted to the destruction of the Temple or the devastation of Jerusalem.

We have sinned!--The confession of personal sinfulness produced by the contemplation of the miseries of the people contrasts, as has been already noticed, with the half-complaining tone of Lamentations 5:7.

Verse 16. - The crown is fallen, etc.; rather, the crown of our head is fallen. The Jewish people is compared to a rich man at a banquet, crowned with a diadem (comp. Isaiah 28:1). Jeremiah has a similar phrase in his prophecies (Jeremiah 13:18). It evidently expresses figuratively the prosperity and honour formerly enjoyed by the now vanquished people.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The crown
עֲטֶ֣רֶת (‘ă·ṭe·reṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5850: A crown, wreath

has fallen
נָֽפְלָה֙ (nā·p̄ə·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

from our head.
רֹאשֵׁ֔נוּ (rō·šê·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 7218: The head

Woe to us,
אֽוֹי־ (’ō·w-)
Interjection
Strong's 188: Lamentation, Oh!

for
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

we have sinned!
חָטָֽאנוּ׃ (ḥā·ṭā·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn


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