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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 5, Verse 15

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14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
King James Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
American Standard Version
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
New English Translation
Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
World English Bible
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17
For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
21
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the captives by the river of Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2
In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
3
The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.