Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased,.... ward joy was gone, as well as the external signs of it: it "sabbatized" {y}, 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.
{y} tbv "sabbatizat".
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