Lamentations 5:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Therefore is our heart sorrowful: therefore are our eyes become dim.

Lamentations 5:17 Cross References

Job 17:7

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

Psalm 38:8

I am faint and sore bruised: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Psalm 6:7

Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Isaiah 1:5

Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward; O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Jeremiah 46:5

Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:18

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

Lamentations 1:13

From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back; he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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 young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Ezekiel 21:15

I have set the point of the 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.

Ezekiel 21:7

And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord GOD

Leviticus 26:36

And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

Micah 6:13

Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul: