Jeremiæ 5:16

Nova Vulgata

Cecidit corona capitis nostri; vae nobis, quia peccavimus!

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Pharetra ejus quasi sepulchrum patens, universi fortes.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Cecidit corona capitis nostri:
v� nobis, quia peccavimus!

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.