Lamentations 5:15

15 Happiness has gone out of our lives; grief has taken the place of our dances.

Lamentations 5:15 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart is ceased
ward joy was gone, as well as the external signs of it: it "sabbatized" ^F25, 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, ( Judges 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (tbv) "sabbatizat".

Lamentations 5:15 In-Context

13 Our young men are forced to grind grain like slaves; boys go staggering under heavy loads of wood.

14 The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.

15 Happiness has gone out of our lives; grief has taken the place of our dances.

16 Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.

17 We are sick at our very hearts and can hardly see through our tears,