Lamentations 5:17
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
In Context
16Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
18For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36'And those who are left of you — I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled — flight from a sword — and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
Job 17:7And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
Psalms 31:9Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress [is] to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.
Isaiah 1:5Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart [is] sick.
Jeremiah 8:18My refreshing for me [is] sorrow, For me my heart [is] sick.
Lamentations 1:13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate — all the day sick.
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 →