Lamentations 5:15
in Lamentations 5Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
KJV
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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This verse in Lamentations 5
Commentary
3 notes on this verseHere reference is made to the exercise of joy: "The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dancing has been turned to mourning." As the prophet Amos states: "I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations." (Amos 8:10).
This site's exposition
They took the young men to grind
on Lamentations 5:13-15
Verse 13 sets the young men to a slave's labor at the millstone and the children stumbling under loads of wood, work once done by servants now forced on the free. Verse 14 empties the city gate of its elders and its music of its young men, the two institutions of civic and social life silenced together, and verse 15 states the result in one line, the joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning, celebration itself gone out of the city.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The joy of our heart is ceased,.... ward joy was gone, as well as the external signs of it: it "sabbatized" (y), as it may be rendered; alluding perhaps to the cordial joy expressed formerly on their sabbaths and other festivals, now not observed; at least, not with that joy, inward and outward, they formerly were: our dance is turned into mourning; which also was used at their solemn feasts, as well as at their common diversions, Jdg 21:21; but now no more of that; but, instead of it, mourning at the calamities they were oppressed with; and at the remembrance of mercies and privileges, civil and religious, they were deprived of. (y) שבת "sabbatizat".
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁבַת֙ | shavat | it has ceased | H7673 → | |
| מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ | mesos | [the] joy of | H4885 → | |
| לִבֵּ֔נוּ | libenu | heart our | H3820 → | 595 times |
| נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ | nehpakh | it has been changed | H2015 → | 94 times |
| לְאֵ֖בֶל | leevel | into mourning | H60 → | |
| מְחֹלֵֽנוּ׃ | mecholenu | dancing our | H4234 → |
שָׁבַת֙it has ceased
shavatH7673 →
מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ[the] joy of
mesosH4885 →
לִבֵּ֔נוּheart our
libenuH3820 →595 times
נֶהְפַּ֥ךְit has been changed
nehpakhH2015 →94 times
לְאֵ֖בֶלinto mourning
leevelH60 →
מְחֹלֵֽנוּ׃dancing our
mecholenuH4234 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 30:11You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
it leads to
- Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
- Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
- Jeremiah 31:13–14
Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
- Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- 2 Chronicles 20:12
Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”
- Jeremiah 31:4
Through
Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- Zechariah 12:10
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They…
- Jeremiah 6:26
Through
Jeremiah 25:10Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 7:34
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
- Jeremiah 7:34
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About Lamentations
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.