Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint;for these things our eyes grow dim.
New Heart English 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 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: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and 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 8:18"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it overcame them.He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back.He has made me desolate and faint all the day.NUN
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 →