“Here reference is made to the exercise of joy: "The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dancing has been turned to mourning." As the prophet Amos states: "I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations." (Amos 8:10).”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
— Lamentations 5:15 —
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.