Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as to those that remain of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;
Job 17:7And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
Psalms 31:9Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Jeremiah 8:18My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
Lamentations 1:13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; he hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back; he hath made me desolate [and] faint 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 →