Lamentations 5:15

15 defecit gaudium cordis nostri versus est in luctu chorus noster

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 adulescentibus inpudice abusi sunt et pueri in ligno corruerunt

14 senes de portis defecerunt iuvenes de choro psallentium

15 defecit gaudium cordis nostri versus est in luctu chorus noster

16 cecidit corona capitis nostri vae nobis quia peccavimus

17 propterea maestum factum est cor nostrum ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri