Lamentations 5:17
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: 1 For this our eyes are darkened. 1
Updated 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: 1 Yea, woe to us! for we have sinned. 1
18Over the mountain of Zion, because it is made desolate, 1 Foxes have walked therein. 1
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; 1 I have been grievously beset by all. 1
Psalms 31:9Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding: 1 But thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, 1 Lest they should come nigh to thee. 1
Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be smitten anymore, 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 1:13He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, 1 He has brought it into my bones: 1 He has spread a net for my feet, 1 He has turned me back: 1 He has made me desolate 1 And mourning all the day. 1
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 →