Lamentations 5:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Because of this our hearts grow sick, at this our eyes grow dim:

Cross References

Job 17:7

My eyes are blind with anguish, and my whole frame is like a shadow.

Psalm 31:9

You will not abandon me into enemy hands, but will set my feet in a free and open space.

Psalm 38:8

My loins burn with fever; there is no wholesomeness in my flesh.

Psalm 6:7

I am wearied with sighing; all night long I drench my bed with tears; I soak my couch with weeping.

Psalm 69:3

I have sunk into the mire of the deep, where there is no foothold. I have gone down to the watery depths; the flood overwhelms me.

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weary looking heavenward: Lord, I am overwhelmed; go security for me!

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see? Are they panicking, falling apart? Their warriors are hammered back, They flee headlong never making a stand. Terror on every side— oracle of the Lord!

Jeremiah 8:18

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

Lamentations 1:13

From on high he hurled fire down into my very bones; He spread out a net for my feet, and turned me back. He has left me desolate, in misery all day long.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their evil come before you and deal with them As you have so ruthlessly dealt with me for all my rebellions. My groans are many, my heart is sick.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with tears, my stomach churns; My bile is poured out on the ground at the brokenness of the daughter of my people, As children and infants collapse in the streets of the town.

Ezekiel 21:15

Sharpened to make a slaughter, burnished to flash lightning! Why should I stop now? You have rejected the rod and every judgment!

Ezekiel 21:7

Son of man, turn your face toward Jerusalem: preach against its sanctuary, prophesy against the land of Israel.

Leviticus 26:36

Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them;

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among these nations you will find no rest, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot, for there the Lord will give you an anguished heart and wearied eyes and a trembling spirit.