Lamentations 5:17
For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
Noyes Bible
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, that we have sinned!
18On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
Cross References
Job 17:7My eye therefore is dim with sorrow, And all my limbs are as a shadow.
Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O LORD! for I am in trouble! My face is consumed with grief; Yea, my spirit and my body.
Isaiah 1:5Where can ye be smitten again, Since ye renew your rebellion? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;
Jeremiah 8:18O where is consolation for my sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Lamentations 1:13“From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevailed against them: He hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back; He hath made me desolate, faint all the day long.
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 →