Lamentations 5:17
For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
18Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as for such as are left of you, Then will I bring faintness into their heart, in the lands of their foes,—So that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, And they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword And they shall fall, when no one is pursuing;
Job 17:7Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
Psalms 31:9Show me favour, O Yahweh, for in distress am I,—Wasted with vexation, is mine eye—my soul and my body;
Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye would again turn aside! The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint:
Jeremiah 8:18When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened:—
Lamentations 1:13From on high, sent he fire, among my bones, and laid them prostrate,—He spread out a net for my feet, he made me turn back, he made me desolate, all the day, faint.
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 →