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Lamentations 5:16

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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נָֽפְלָה֙nafelahfallנָפַלverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “fall”, a completed actionH5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for H6419 (פָּלַל…עֲטֶ֣רֶתateretcrownעֲטָרָהnoun, common, feminine, singular, construct — “crown”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5850a crowncrown.רֹאשֵׁ֔נוּroshenvheadרֹאשׁnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “head”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, [idiom] every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), [idiom] lead, [idiom] poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.אֽוֹיoyalasאוֹיparticle, interjection — “alas”H188lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!alas, woe.נָ֥אnaI beseech theeנָאparticle, exhortation — “I beseech thee”H4994'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunctionI beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.לָ֖נוּlanvtoלָ֖נוּpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “to”toכִּ֥יkiassuredכִּיconjunction — “assured”H3588(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexedand, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + til…חָטָֽאנוּchatanvby faultחָטָאverb, qal, perfect, 1st person, common, plural — “by fault”, a completed actionH2398properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemnbear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.

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American Standard Version (1901)

The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Young’s Literal Translation

Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.

World English Bible

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Darby Translation

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

Douay-Rheims

The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

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

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἔπεσεν ὁ στέφανος ἡμῶν τῆς κεφαλῆς· οὐαὶ δὲ ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν.