Lamentations 5:17
Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
18Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
Job 17:7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
Psalms 31:9\31:8\And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.
Isaiah 1:5Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Jeremiah 8:18Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →