Lamentations 5:17

WEB

¹⁷For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:

KJV

¹⁷For this our heart^[+] is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

BSB

¹⁷Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

FBV

¹⁷Because of all this, we're sick at heart; because of all these things, we can hardly look;

Extra References

Psalms 6:7

⁷My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Isaiah 1:5

⁵Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Job 17:7

⁷My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

¹¹My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Isaiah 38:14

¹⁴I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

Jeremiah 8:18

¹⁸Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

Deuteronomy 28:65

⁶⁵Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

Lamentations 1:13

¹³“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

Ezekiel 21:15

¹⁵I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.

Lamentations 1:22

²²“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.