Lamentations 5:17 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

KJV

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ASV

For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

WEB

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

YLT

For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

DBT

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Psalms 6:7
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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): For this our heart is faint, and sinks under the load of its own heaviness; for these things our eyes are dim, and our sight is gone, as is usual in a deliquium, or fainting fit. "It is because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the holy mountain, and the temple built upon that mountain.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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LAM 5:17ISA 38:14 ISA 59:11
LAM 5:17ISA 38:14 PSA 69:3
LAM 5:17ISA 38:14 NAH 2:7
LAM 5:17ISA 38:14 JOB 30:29
LAM 5:17ISA 38:14 PSA 123:1-4
LAM 5:17ISA 1:5 DAN 9:8-11
LAM 5:17JOB 17:7 PSA 31:9-10
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