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Lamentations 5

Lam. 5:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The crown
`atarah (Hebrew #5850)
a crown
KJV usage: crown.
Pronounce: at-aw-raw'
Origin: from 5849
ρis fallen
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
from our head
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
: woe
'owy (Hebrew #188)
lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!
KJV usage: alas, woe.
Pronounce: o'-ee
Origin: probably from 183 (in the sense of crying out after)
unto us, that we have sinned
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
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of our head is fallen.

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Cross References

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The crown.
Lam. 1:1• 1{i}How{/i} {i}doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!{HR}She that was great among the nations is become as a widow;{HR}The princess among the provinces is become tributary!{/i} (Lam. 1:1)
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Job 19:9• 9He hath stripped me of my glory,{HR}And hath taken the crown of my head. (Job 19:9)
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Psa. 89:39• 39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant;{HR}{i}Thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:{/i} (Psa. 89:39)
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Jer. 13:18• 18Say unto the king and unto the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. (Jer. 13:18)
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Ezek. 21:26• 26Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. (Ezek. 21:26)
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Rev. 2:10• 10Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. (Rev. 2:10)
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Rev. 3:11• 11I am coming quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. (Rev. 3:11)
is fallen from our head.
Heb. of our head is fallen.
woe.
Lam. 1:8,18• 8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:{HR}All that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:{HR}Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
 18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:{HR}Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow:{HR}My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. (Lam. 1:8,18)
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Lam. 2:1• 1How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with the cloud in his anger,{HR}And cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,{HR}And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger. (Lam. 2:1)
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Lam. 4:13• 13Because of the sins of her prophets,{HR}The iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, (Lam. 4:13)
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Prov. 14:34• 34Righteousness exalteth a nation;{HR}But sin [is] a reproach to peoples. (Prov. 14:34)
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Isa. 3:9‑11• 9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
 10Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
 11Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for the desert of his hands shall be given him. (Isa. 3:9‑11)
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Jer. 2:17,19• 17{i}Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?{/i}
 19{i}Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.{/i} (Jer. 2:17,19)
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Jer. 4:18• 18{i}Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.{/i} (Jer. 4:18)
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Ezek. 7:17‑22• 17{i}All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.{/i}
 18{i}And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.{/i}
 19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as uncleanness. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; they shall not satisfy their souls nor fill their bowels, because it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
 20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
 21And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
 22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. (Ezek. 7:17‑22)
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Ezek. 22:12‑16• 12{i}In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.{/i}
 13Therefore, behold, I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
 14Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I Jehovah have spoken it, and will do it.
 15And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
 16And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 22:12‑16)
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2 Peter 2:4‑6• 4For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to lowest hell and gave them up to chains of gloom reserved for judgment,
 5and spared not an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones;
 6and reducing to ashes [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he condemned [them] with overthrow, having set an example to those that should live ungodlily, (2 Peter 2:4‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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The crown of our head is fallen: woe now unto us, for we have sinned!