Lamentations 5:17
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
18Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And vpon them that are left of you, I will send euen a faintnes into their hearts in ye land of their enemies, and the sounde of a leafeshaken shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall, no man pursuing them.
Job 17:7Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
Psalms 31:9Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.
Isaiah 1:5Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? for ye fall away more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.
Jeremiah 8:18I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.
Lamentations 1:13From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.
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 →