Lamentations 5:17
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
Brenton Septuagint
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: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
18Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.
Job 17:7For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
Psalms 31:9Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding: + 31:9 See Alex. ἄγξεις. but thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come nigh to thee.
Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be smitten any more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.
Jeremiah 8:18mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
Lamentations 1:13Mem. He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, he has brought it into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and mourning 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 →