Lamentations 5:17
Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.
18Because of the hill of Sion that is destroyed: insomuch that the foxes runne vpon it.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:5Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? [for] ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy:
Lamentations 1:13From aboue hath he sent downe a fire into my bones, and it burneth them cruelly: he hath layde a net for my feete, and throwen me wyde open, he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournyng.
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 →