Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
World English 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. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
18for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
Job 17:7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Psalms 31:9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Isaiah 1:5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Jeremiah 8:18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Lamentations 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all 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 →