Lamentations 5:17
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 to us, because we have sinned.
18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall flee as it were from the sword: they shall fall, when no man pursueth them,
Job 17:7My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
Psalms 31:9And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
Isaiah 1:5For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
Jeremiah 8:18My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.
Lamentations 1:13Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the 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 →