Lamentations 5:17
Our heart has been sick for this, || Our eyes have been dim for these.
Literal Standard Version
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, || Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
18For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, || Foxes have gone up on it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And those who are left of you—I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away has pursued them, and they have fled [as in] flight from a sword—and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
Job 17:7And my eye is dim from sorrow, || And my members—all of them—as a shadow.
Psalms 31:9Favor me, O YHWH, for distress [is] to me, || My eye, my soul, and my body || Have become old by provocation.
Isaiah 1:5Why are you struck anymore? You add apostasy! Every head has become diseased, and every heart [is] sick.
Jeremiah 8:18My sorrow [is] beyond comfort, || My heart [is] sick in me.
Lamentations 1:13From above He has sent fire into my bone, || And it subdues it, He has spread a net for my feet, || He has turned me backward, || He has made me desolate—all the day sick.
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 →