Lamentations 5:16

The crown — All our honour, splendor and dignity.

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Albert 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 g...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 a...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 c...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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....
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 ;...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The crown is fallen from our head ] a figurative expression conveying the thought that Zion has lost her dignity of statehood. Woe unto us, th...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The crown is fallen. — The phrase is naturally symbolic of degradation, and need not be restricted to the destruction of the Temple or the devastat...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 di...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 J...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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 s...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 overt...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The crown is fallen from our head, their former position of glory and honor and influence apparently being put from them forever. Woe unto us that w...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 5:16