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Lamentations 5:17

A Conservative Version

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

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


My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.


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


My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.


Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.


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


I 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.


And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak


Let all their wickedness come before thee, and do to them, as thou have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.


From on high he has 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 faint all the day.


Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. And their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and do not look back. Terror is on every side, says LORD.


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


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


Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.


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


And as for those who 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 a man flees from the sword, and they shall fall w


I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.





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