Lamentations 5:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Because of this our hearts are sick; because of these things our eyes have grown dim:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Because of this our hearts are faint and sick; because of these things our eyes are dim and see darkly.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Because of all this our heart is sick; because of these things our glance is dark.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:

Lamentations 5:17 Cross References

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

Psalm 6:7

My eyes waste away because of grief; they grow weak because of all my foes.

Job 17:7

My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Micah 6:13

Therefore I have begun to strike you down, making you desolate because of your sins.

Ezekiel 21:15

therefore hearts melt, and many stumble. At all their gates I have set the point of the sword. Ah! It is made for flashing; it is drawn for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they say to you, “Why do you moan?” you shall say, “Because of the news that has come. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will turn to water. See, it comes and it will be fulfilled,” says the Lord God.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their evildoing come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

Lamentations 1:13

From on high he sent fire; it went deep into my bones; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all day long.

Jeremiah 46:5

Why do I see them terrified? They have fallen back; their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste. They do not look back— terror is all around! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.

Leviticus 26:36

And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.

Psalm 38:8

I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.