Lamentations 5:16

A Request For Mercy

¹⁵ The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges. ¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned! ¹⁷ This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim:

We Have Sinned

Psalm 89:39

You have dishonored the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown on the ground.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come take a lowly seat, because your beautiful crowns have fallen off your heads."

Job 19:9

"He has stripped me of my honor; he has stolen the crown off my head!

Isaiah 3:9-11

"The expressions on their faces give them away. They parade their sin around like Sodom; they don't even try to hide it. How horrible it will be for them, because they have brought disaster on themselves!"

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely she lies, the city that thronged with people! Like a widow she has become, this great one among nations! The princess among provinces has become a vassal.

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness makes a nation great, but sin diminishes any people.

Jeremiah 2:17

You have done this to yourselves, have you not, by forsaking the LORD your God, when he is the one who led you on the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will be punished, and you will be corrected due to your acts of apostasy. Know and see that it's evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God, but the fear of me is not in you," declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

Jeremiah 4:18

"Your lifestyles and your actions have brought these things on you. This is your calamity it is indeed bitter, for it has reached your heart!"

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned greatly, and she became unclean. All who honored her now despise her, because they saw her naked. She herself groans and turns her face away.

Lamentations 1:18

The LORD is in the right, but I rebelled against his commands. Listen, please, all you people, and look at my pain my young men and women have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his wrath shamed cherished Zion! He cast down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, He did not remember his footstool in the time of his anger.

Lamentations 4:13

Due to the sins committed by her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests who shed in her midst, the blood of the righteous,

Ezekiel 7:17-22

Every hand will be limp. Every knee will glisten with sweat."

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Remove your turban! Take off your crown! Things aren't going to remain as they used to be. What is lowly will be exalted, and what is lofty will be brought low.

Ezekiel 22:12-16

They take bribes among you to shed blood. You've taken usury and exacted interest. You've gained control over your neighbor through extortion. And you've forgotten me," declares the Lord GOD.

2 Peter 2:4-6

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into the lowest hell and imprisoned them in chains of deepest darkness, holding them for judgment;

Revelation 2:10

Don't be afraid of what you are going to suffer. Look! The Devil is going to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested. For ten days you will undergo suffering. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the victor's crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming soon! Hold on to what you have so that no one takes your victor's crown.