Lamentations 5:17
Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
18Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And regarding those that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from the sword; and they shall fall with none pursuing.
Job 17:7Therefore is my eye dim from vexation, and my limbs are all of them like a shadow.
Psalms 31:9(31:10) Be gracious unto me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is consumed through vexation—my soul [too] and my body.
Isaiah 1:5Why will ye be stricken yet more? [that] ye increase the revolt? every head is sick, and every heart is faint.
Jeremiah 8:18When I would cheer myself up against sorrow, my heart within me is pained.
Lamentations 1:13From on high hath he sent a fire into my bones, and breaketh [them] one by one: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath caused me to return backward; he hath made me desolate, sick 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 →