Lamentations 5:17
Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
18because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And whoever of you will remain, I will send terror into their hearts in the regions of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf will terrify them, and so they will flee, as if from the sword. They will fall, though no one pursues.
Job 17:7My eyesight has been clouded by indignation, and my limbs have been reduced, as if to nothing.
Psalms 31:9Do not become like the horse and the mule, which have no understanding. Their jaws are constrained with bit and bridle, so as not to draw near to you.
Isaiah 1:5For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving.
Jeremiah 8:18My sorrow is beyond sorrow; my heart mourns within me.
Lamentations 1:13MEM. From on high, he has sent fire into my bones, and he has educated me. He has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back. He has placed me in desolation, consumed by grief, all day long.
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 →