Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart has become sick, 1 for these things our eyes grow dim 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 woe to us, for we have sinned! 1
18for Mount Zion lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.
Job 17:7My eye is also dim because of sorrow; 1 all my body parts are as thin as shadows. 1
Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, Yahweh, for I am in distress; 1 my eyes grow weary with grief with my soul and my body. 1
Isaiah 1:5Why are you still being beaten? Why do you rebel more and more? 1 The whole head is sick, the whole heart is weak. 1
Jeremiah 8:18My sorrow has no end, and my heart is sick. 1
Lamentations 1:13It is from on high that he has sent fire into my bones, and it has conquered them. 1 He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back. 1 He has made me constantly desolate and weak. 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 →