“ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! ”
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.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
By the crown of the head he no doubt understands all those ornaments by which that people had been adorned. They had a kingdom and a priesthood, which were like two luminaries or two precious j...
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! The crown is fallen from our head - At feasts, marriages, etc., they used to crown themselves with garlands of flowers; all fest...
The crown is fallen from our head— At their fears, at their marriages, and other seasons of festivity, they used to crown themselves with flowers. The prophet probably alludes to this custom, as we...
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! The crown - all our glory, the kingdom and the priesthood ( Job 19:9 ; Psalms 89:39 ; Psalms 89:44 ).
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
The crown is fallen. — The phrase is naturally symbolic of degradation, and need not be restricted to the destruction of the Temple or the devastation of Jerusalem. We have sinned! — The confess...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11-18 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The pr...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
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...
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! Ver. 16. The crown is fallen from our head, ] i.e., All our glory, both of Church and State, because we refused to serve G...
Princes are hanged up by their hand By the hand of their enemies. They took the young men to grind To grind at the mill was the common employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5 . The children fell unde...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
Or, The crown of our head is fallen , by which is not only to be understood the cessation of their kingdom, but all their honour, splendour, and dignity (crown being taken in a metaphorical notion)...
The crown is fallen from our head, Woe to us! for we have sinned. The crown is fallen from our head' might be a reference to the fact that they no longer had a king ruling over them. But far more l...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:16 . Fallen is the crown from our head . That which was their honour has gone—the crown with which the Lord Jehovah had decked His chosen nation. I put … a be...
Lamentations 5:16 I. The secret of man's perfection may be summed up in these short words: Love to God. The secret of man's sin may be stated as shortly: Defect of love to God. As the former impli...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
The elders have ceased from the gate. The seat of justice overthrown 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (a) It b...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
2 Peter 2:4-6 ; Ezekiel 21:26 ; Ezekiel 22:12-16 ; Ezekiel 7:17-22 ; Isaiah 3:9-11 ; Jeremiah 13:18 ; Jeremiah 2:17 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Jeremiah 4:18 ; Job 19:9 ; Lamentations 1:1 ; Lamenta...
The crown — All our honour, splendor and dignity.