Lamentations 5:15

¹³ Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

¹⁴ The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷ Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

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Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
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Jeremiah 25:10
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
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Amos 6:4–7
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
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Psalms 30:11
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
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James 4:9–10
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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