Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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.
18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Job 17:7Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
Psalms 31:9(31-10) Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I am in distress; mine eye wasteth away with vexation, yea, my soul and my body.
Isaiah 1:5On what part will ye yet be stricken, seeing ye stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;
Jeremiah 8:18Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within 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 →