Lamentations 5:16

Easy-to-Read Version

The crown has fallen from our head. Things have gone bad for us because we sinned.

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

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

English Standard 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!

New Century Version
The crown has fallen from our head. How terrible it is because we sinned.

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

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
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!

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
The crown has fallen from our heads. Woe to us! for we have sinned.

Darby Translation
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

George Lamsa Translation
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

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

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

Literal Translation
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us, for we have sinned!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The garlande of oure heade is fallen: alas, that euer we synned so sore.

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

Bible in Basic English
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.

King James Version (1611)
The crowne is fallen from our head: Woe vnto vs, that wee haue sinned.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The coroun of oure heed fellen doun; wo to vs! for we synneden.

Update Bible Version
The crown has 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!

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

New King James 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.

New Life Bible
The crown has fallen from our head. It is bad for us, for we have sinned!

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

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

Revised Standard Version
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, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned.

Contextual Overview

¹ Remember, Lord , what happened to us. Look and see our shame. ² Our land has been turned over to strangers. Our houses have been given to foreigners. ³ We have become orphans. We have no father. Our mothers have become like widows. ⁴ We have to buy the water that we drink. We have to pay for the wood that we use. ⁵ We are forced to wear a yoke on our necks. We get tired, and we have no rest. ⁶ We made an agreement with Egypt. We also made an agreement with Assyria to get enough bread. ⁷ Our ancestors sinned against you, and now they are dead. And we are suffering because of their sins. ⁸ Slaves have become our rulers. No one can save us from them. ⁹ We risk our lives to get food. There are men in the desert with swords. ¹⁰ Our skin is hot like an oven. We have a high fever because of our hunger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The crown: Lamentations 1:1, Job 19:9, Psalms 89:39, Jeremiah 13:18, Ezekiel 21:26, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 3:11

is fallen from our head: Heb. of our head is fallen

woe: Lamentations 1:8, Lamentations 1:18, Lamentations 2:1, Lamentations 4:13, Proverbs 14:34, Isaiah 3:9-11, Jeremiah 2:17, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 4:18, Ezekiel 7:17-22, Ezekiel 22:12-16, 2 Peter 2:4-6

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 1:10 - crown 2 Samuel 1:19 - how are 2 Samuel 1:25 - How Job 10:2 - show me Psalms 38:10 - the light Psalms 102:10 - Because Isaiah 3:8 - Jerusalem Isaiah 59:9 - is judgment Jeremiah 3:25 - lie down Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 32:23 - therefore Lamentations 3:42 - transgressed Ezekiel 16:11 - and a Ezekiel 28:15 - till iniquity Daniel 9:8 - because Hosea 7:13 - Woe Hosea 14:1 - thou Micah 1:5 - the transgression of Jacob Zephaniah 1:17 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The crown is fallen [from] our head,.... Or, "the crown of our head is fallen" a; all their honour and glory as a nation were gone; the glory of their kingdom and priesthood, to both which a crown or mitre belonged; the glory of church and state. Aben Ezra interprets it of the temple, the place of the divine Majesty. Sanctius thinks there is an allusion to the crowns they wore upon their heads at their feasts and festivals; and so the words have a close connection with what goes before:

woe unto us that we have sinned! which had brought all these evils upon them: this is not to be considered as an imprecation or denunciation of misery; but as a commiseration of their case; calling upon others to it, and particularly God himself, to have mercy upon them; for, alas for them! they had sinned, and justly deserved what was come upon them; and therefore throw themselves at the feet of mercy, and implore divine compassion.

a נפלה עטרת ראשנו "cecidit corona capitis nostri", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Literally, “The crown of our head is fallen,” i. e. what was our chief ornament and dignity is lost; the independence of the nation, and all that gave them rank and honor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. The crown is fallen from our head — At feasts, marriages, c., they used to crown themselves with garlands of flowers all festivity of this kind was now at an end. Or it may refer to their having lost all sovereignty, being made slaves.