Lamentations 5:17

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 17:7

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

Psalm 31:9

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

Psalm 38:8

I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the disquietness of my heart.

Psalm 6:7

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

Psalm 69:3

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

Isaiah 1:5

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

Isaiah 38:14

Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O  Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Jeremiah 46:5

Why have I seen them dismayed and drawing back? Their mighty ones are beaten down and have taken refuge in flight, and not looking back. Terror is on every side! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:18

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

Lamentations 1:13

From on high He has sent fire into my bones, and it prevailed against them; He has spread a net for my feet; He turned me back; He has made me desolate and faint all the day long.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their wickedness come before You, and do to them as You have done to me for all my transgressions; for my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears, my spirit is greatly troubled; my bile is poured on the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Ezekiel 21:15

That their hearts may faint, and many fall at all their gates, I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning; it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:7

It shall be when they say to you, “Why do you groan?” that you shall answer, “Because of the news that is coming. 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 comes and shall be brought to pass,” says the Lord God.

Leviticus 26:36

And on those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee, and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

Micah 6:13

Therefore, I have struck you a dreadful blow, devastating you because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among these nations you will find no ease, nor will the sole of your foot have rest. But there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.