Lamentaciones 5:16

16 Cayó la corona de nuestra cabeza. ¡Ay ahora de nosotros! Porque pecamos.

Lamentaciones 5:16 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:16

The crown is fallen [from] our head
Or, "the crown of our head is fallen" ^F1; all their honour and glory as a nation were gone; the glory of their kingdom and priesthood, to both which a crown or mitre belonged; the glory of church and state. Aben Ezra interprets it of the temple, the place of the divine Majesty. Sanctius thinks there is an allusion to the crowns they wore upon their heads at their feasts and festivals; and so the words have a close connection with what goes before: woe unto us that we have sinned!
which had brought all these evils upon them: this is not to be considered as an imprecation or denunciation of misery; but as a commiseration of their case; calling upon others to it, and particularly God himself, to have mercy upon them; for, alas for them! they had sinned, and justly deserved what was come upon them; and therefore throw themselves at the feet of mercy, and implore divine compassion.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (wnvar trje hlpn) "cecidit corona capitis nostri", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Lamentaciones 5:16 In-Context

14 Los ancianos cesaron de la puerta, los jóvenes de sus canciones.

15 Cesó el gozo de nuestro corazón; nuestro corro se tornó en luto.

16 Cayó la corona de nuestra cabeza. ¡Ay ahora de nosotros! Porque pecamos.

17 Por esto fue entristecido nuestro corazón, por esto se entenebrecieron nuestro ojos,

18 Por el Monte de Sion que está asolado; zorras andan en él.