Lamentations 5:15

A Request For Mercy

¹⁴ Elders are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.
¹⁵ The joy of our hearts has ceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head;
Woe to us, for we have sinned!

No

Amos 8:10

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loins
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

Psalm 30:11

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy 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

Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches,
And eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,

James 4:9-10

Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.