Lamentations 5:15

15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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 The chosen men lifted up weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

14 And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown has fallen our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

17 For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.